In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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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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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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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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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 this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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See now the power of truth.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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