All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
GALILEO GALILEIWine is sunlight, held together by water.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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See now the power of truth.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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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 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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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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