I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
GALILEO GALILEINames and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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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 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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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