What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
GALILEO GALILEIWine is sunlight, held together by water.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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 Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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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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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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 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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