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.
GALILEO GALILEIThe 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.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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.
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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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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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