I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
GALILEO GALILEII 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.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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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 Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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 time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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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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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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 have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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