The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
GALILEO GALILEII give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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 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.
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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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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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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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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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