Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
GALILEO GALILEISee 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.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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Nonetheless, it moves.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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See now the power of truth.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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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 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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