In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
GALILEO GALILEIFacts 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.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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See now the power of truth.
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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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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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In 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.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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