I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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