Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
GALILEO GALILEIThe greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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