"Wine is sunlight, held together by water."
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"My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?"
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"And believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with the mathematical sciences, which proceed very cautiously and admit nothing as established until it has been rigorously demonstrated."
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"It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha."
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"If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon."
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"The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters."
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"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations."
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"I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them."
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"It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon."
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"Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account."
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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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"We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains perceptible to us only that of the stone, which is not shared by us; and, because of this, sense shows it as by a straight line, always parallel to the tower, which is built upright and perpendicular upon the terrestrial surface."
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"Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go."
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"In regard to the philosophers, if they be true philosophers, i.e., lovers of truth, they should not be irritated that the earth moves. Rather, if they realize that they have held a false belief, they should thank those have shown them the truth; and if their opinion stands firm that the earth doesn't move, they will have reason to boast than be angered."
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"See now the power of truth."
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"The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word."
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"But let us remember that we are dealing with infinities and indivisibles both of which transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness."
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"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."
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"See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary."
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"Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person of independent genius, [but he] became interested in the action of the moon on the water, and in other occult phenomena, and similar childishness."
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