The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
GALILEO GALILEIIn the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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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.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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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.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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