You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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 deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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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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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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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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