I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
GALILEO GALILEIIn 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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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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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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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