There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
GALILEO GALILEIWho would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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 a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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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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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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Philosophy 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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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See now the power of truth.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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