I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
GALILEO GALILEII think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
GALILEO GALILEIMeasure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
GALILEO GALILEISee now the power of truth.
GALILEO GALILEIIn time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
GALILEO GALILEII have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
GALILEO GALILEIThat sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
GALILEO GALILEII am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
GALILEO GALILEIFacts 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 GALILEIScience proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy 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.
GALILEO GALILEII believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
GALILEO GALILEIBy denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
GALILEO GALILEIMathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
GALILEO GALILEIAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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