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.
GALILEO GALILEIWine is sunlight, held together by water.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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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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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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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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