I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
GALILEO GALILEIIn questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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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.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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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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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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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 laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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