The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEISee now the power of truth.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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