Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
GALILEO GALILEIEarth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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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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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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