The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEIThe nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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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 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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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