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.
GALILEO GALILEIWho would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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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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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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Nonetheless, it moves.
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