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Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

Claudius Galen 130-200, Physician born in Pergamus

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gaius C. Gallus c.70-26 BC, Gaul Poet

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

Gersonides Philosopher

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

Gersonides

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.

Christian Furchtegott Gellert

To express the most difficult matters clearly and intelligently, is to strike coins out of pure gold.

Emanuel Geibel

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo

To express the most difficult matters clearly and intelligently, is to strike coins out of pure gold.

Geibel

There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.

Galileo Galilei

It began of nothing and in nothing it ends.

Gaius Cornelius Gallus

You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.

Galileo Galilei

Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.

Galen Greek physician

Memorable Quotes

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

Gaius Cornelius Gallus, Roman poet,

Doubt is the father of invention.

Galileo

True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.

Emanuel Geibel

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.

Galileo Galilei

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Baltasar Gracián Spanish prose writer

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Baltasar Gracián

Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured.

Galileo Galilei

You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.

Galileo Galilei

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Galileo Galilei

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Doubt is the father of invention.

Galileo

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.

Galileo Galilei

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

Baltasar Gracián

In a major matter no details are small.

Paul De Gondi, French writer

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Galileo Galilei

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

Baltasar Gracián
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.
To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage.
We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

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