I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
GALILEO GALILEIWho would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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