By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
GALILEO GALILEIHoly Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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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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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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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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