Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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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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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Nonetheless, it moves.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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See now the power of truth.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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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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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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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 Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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