The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
GALILEO GALILEINonetheless, it moves.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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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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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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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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 cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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