Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
GALILEO GALILEIWhere the senses fail us, reason must step in.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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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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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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