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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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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See now the power of truth.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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