To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
GALILEO GALILEIPassion is the genesis of genius.
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 entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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