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.
GALILEO GALILEIBy denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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The 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.
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