I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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