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.
GALILEO GALILEIEarth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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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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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