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.
GALILEO GALILEIBeing 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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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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See now the power of truth.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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