I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
GALILEO GALILEIMathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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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.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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