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 GALILEIWho would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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.
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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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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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See now the power of truth.
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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 is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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