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

Galileo Galilei

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
Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Measure Science
What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Earth Imagination Science Stupidity
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
Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Earth Move Round Science Sun
Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Absolute Holy Lie Scripture Truth
The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Consideration Fools Reason Vanity
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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Assure Care Contrary Experiement Glance Power Show Truth
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Science Stars Togetherness Universe
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Deny Maintain Principle Science Truth
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
We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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Descent Earth Motion Science
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
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Help Himself Man Teaching Wisdom
Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Contradict One Liner Truth
Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Dare Science

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