What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
GALILEO GALILEIIt is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Philosophy 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.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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