The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
GALILEO GALILEIBeing 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.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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See now the power of truth.
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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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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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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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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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