To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
GALILEO GALILEIHoly Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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