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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

Nonetheless, it moves.
GALILEO GALILEI

One Liner Science
Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Dare Science
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
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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Amaze God Infinite Thankful
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Science Understand Vain
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Authority Humble Individual Reason Science Worth
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
Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Genesis Genius One Liner Passion
The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Divine Indeed Infinite Intellectual
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
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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Achievement Benefit Conception Dispute Philosophy Prove
Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Contradict One Liner Truth
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Bad Intelligence Reason
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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Authority Individual Man Opinion Reason Science Spark Worth
Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Contrary Except Impossible Nature Occur
Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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God Language Mathematics Universe Writing
I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
GALILEO GALILEI

Doubt Entertainment God Help Recognize 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
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
Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Earth Move Round Science Sun
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
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 person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
GALILEO GALILEI

Aware Knowledge Teaching
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
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
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
The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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Darkness Earth exchange Gloom Illuminate Moon Night Receive

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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