By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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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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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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