I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
GALILEO GALILEIIf 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.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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