"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
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"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."
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"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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"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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"The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics."
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"To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics."
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"Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom."
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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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"To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'."
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"Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe."
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"You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them."
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"There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly."
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"And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state."
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"Two truths cannot contradict one another."
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"Nonetheless, it moves."
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"The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go."
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"The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens."
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"Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new."
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"Where the senses fail us, reason must step in."
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"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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