That man will be very fortunate who, led by some unusual inner light, shall be able to turn from the dark and confused labyrinths within which he might have gone forever wandering with the crowd and becoming ever more entangled. Therefore, in the matter of philosophy, I consider it not very sound to judge a man's opinion by the number of his followers.
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"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."
"The deeper we penetrate into the universe, the more we realize that it is written in the language of mathematics."
"It is a beautiful and admirable thing to search out the causes of natural phenomena."
"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 interpret th…"
"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."
From a letter to Don Virginio Cesarini, reflecting on intellectual independence.
Date: 1623
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