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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.

Galileo Galilei

The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Science Understand Vain
Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Earth Move Round Science Sun
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 am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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Interest Philosophy Reason Science
Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Act Nature
Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Dare Science
Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Contrary Except Impossible Nature Occur
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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Advice Beginning Follow Mathematics Study
You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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Force Move Science
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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Bunch Dependent Grapes Planet Revolve Sun Universe
Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Contradict One Liner Truth
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Modest Statement Wise
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Help Himself Man Teaching Wisdom
Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Absolute Holy Lie Scripture Truth
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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Book Eyes Language Philosophy Understand Universe Writing
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Believe Harm Prove Science Soul

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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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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