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.
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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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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 think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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The 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.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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