To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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