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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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