Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
GALILEO GALILEINames and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
GALILEO GALILEIThe vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEIIn the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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 GALILEIWe cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
GALILEO GALILEISee 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.
GALILEO GALILEII’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
GALILEO GALILEIThere are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
GALILEO GALILEIWho would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
GALILEO GALILEINonetheless, it moves.
GALILEO GALILEIWhere the senses fail us, reason must step in.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
GALILEO GALILEISee now the power of truth.
GALILEO GALILEIWine is sunlight, held together by water.
GALILEO GALILEIIf you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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