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 GALILEINature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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