Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
GALILEO GALILEIWine is sunlight, held together by water.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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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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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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