Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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 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.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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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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