Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
GALILEO GALILEIScience proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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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 increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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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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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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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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