And yet it moves.
From Galileo Galilei
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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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