I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
GALILEO GALILEILong experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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