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.
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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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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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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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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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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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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See now the power of truth.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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