I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
GALILEO GALILEIWhere the senses fail us, reason must step in.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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 earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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