The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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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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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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