The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
GALILEO GALILEI
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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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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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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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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Nonetheless, it moves.
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See now the power of truth.
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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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