I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
GALILEO GALILEIIn 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.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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 deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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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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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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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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