I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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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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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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