I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
GALILEO GALILEINothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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See now the power of truth.
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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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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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