By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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 Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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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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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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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