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.
GALILEO GALILEINonetheless, it moves.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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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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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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