All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
GALILEO GALILEIThe laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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