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.
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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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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