In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
GALILEO GALILEILong experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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