Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
GALILEO GALILEINonetheless, it moves.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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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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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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