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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.

Galileo Galilei

What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
GALILEO GALILEI

Earth Imagination Science Stupidity
That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
GALILEO GALILEI

Admire Painting Reason relief Sculpture
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.
GALILEO GALILEI

Amaze God Infinite Thankful
Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Earth Move Round Science Sun
You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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Force Move Science
We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
GALILEO GALILEI

Mathematics Number Science
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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Achievement Benefit Conception Dispute Philosophy Prove
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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Atheist Believe God Intellectual Obligation Reason Sense
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEI

Science Understand Vain
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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Authority Individual Man Opinion Reason Science Spark Worth
Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Measure Science
I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
GALILEO GALILEI

Fear Love Night Stars
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
GALILEO GALILEI

Account Ignorance Learning Proceed Science
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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Excellence Future Mind Road Science
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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Acting Human Mind Nature Remember
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
GALILEO GALILEI

Bunch Dependent Grapes Planet Revolve Sun Universe

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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