I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
GALILEO GALILEIBy denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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See now the power of truth.
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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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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.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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