Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
GALILEO GALILEIThe sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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See now the power of truth.
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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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See 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.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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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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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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