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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.

Galileo Galilei

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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God Language Law Mathematics Nature Writing
I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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God Infinite Marvelous Please Thanful
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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Atheist Believe God Intellectual Obligation Reason Sense
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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Excellence Future Mind Road Science
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Science Stars Togetherness Universe
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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Admire Painting Reason relief Sculpture
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Account Ignorance Learning Proceed Science
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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God Heaven Path
Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Earth Move Round Science Sun
I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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Case Heaven Look Surprise
Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Greatness Inspiratioal One Liner Self Love Wisdom
Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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Accomodation Attribute Essence Name Science
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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Explanation Fact Hide Naked Science
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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Astronomy Earth Opinion Philosophy Round Science Study Sun Universe
The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Greatness One Liner Self Love Wisdom
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Discover Easy Point Truth Understand

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