All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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