I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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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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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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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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