The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
GALILEO GALILEII do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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See now the power of truth.
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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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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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