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Color is not based on any objective reality: if the animal were removed, any such quality as tastes, odors, colors, etc., would be abolished and annihilated.

Doubt is the father of invention.

Geometry is the key to reading the book of the universe; a book written in the mathematical language where the symbols are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without the help of which it is impossible to conceive a single word of it, and without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.

Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.

Odor is not based on any objective reality: if the animal were removed, any such quality as tastes, odors, colors, etc., would be abolished and annihilated.

Perception is not based on any objective reality: if the animal were removed, any such quality as tastes, odors, colors, etc., would be abolished and annihilated.

Socrates is well perceived his wisdom to be nothing, in comparison of the infinite knowledge which he wanted. Neither one nor the other doth follow, for that both the assertions may be true. The Oracle adjudged Socrates the wi­sest of all men, whose knowledg is limited; Socrates acknowledgeth that he knew nothing in relation to absolute wisdome, which is infinite; and because of infinite, much is the same part as is little, and as is nothing (for to arrive... to the infinite number, it is all one to accumulate thousands, tens, or ciphers,) therefore Socrates well perceived his wisdom to be nothing, in comparison of the infinite knowledge which he wanted. But yet, because there is some knowledge found amongst men, and this not equally shared to all, Socrates might have a greater share thereof than others, and therefore verified the answer of the Oracle.

The Sun , with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

The Universe is a book written in the mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without the help of which it is impossible to conceive a single word of it, and without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.