There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
GALILEO GALILEITo be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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