I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover 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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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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