The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEIThe increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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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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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.
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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 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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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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 do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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