I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
GALILEO GALILEIThat sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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