Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
GALILEO GALILEII am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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