Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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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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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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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 do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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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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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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