Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
GALILEO GALILEIThe earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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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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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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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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