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" All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. "
Discover
Understand
Truth
" And yet it moves. "
Moves
" By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox. "
Principles
Science
Any
" Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. "
Simple
Stand
Hidden
" He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze. "
Philosophy
Nature
Great
" 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. "
Believe
Us
Religion
" If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. "
Beginning
Education
Mathematics
" I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things. "
Thanks
Things
First
" I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. "
Ignorant
Learning
Man
" I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters. "
Go
Daily
Business
" In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. "
Authority
Humble
Questions
" I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations. "
Natural
Problems
Think
" It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved. "
Surely
Heresy
Make
" It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. "
Science
Me
Authority
" Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so. "
Measurable
Measure
Make
" Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. "
Actions
Hidden
Man
" Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed. "
Book
Language
Universe
" The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. "
Religion
Go
Shows
" The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters. "
Nothing
Milky Way
Way
" 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. "
Human
Mind
Nature
" 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. "
Nature
Nothing
Universe
" We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. "
People
Brainy
Within
" We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers. "
Squares
Many
Must
" Where the senses fail us, reason must step in. "
Reason
Senses
Step
" Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known? "
Mind
Know
Dare
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