I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
GALILEO GALILEIMeasure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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See now the power of truth.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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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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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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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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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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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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