Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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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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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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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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