Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
GALILEO GALILEIIf 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.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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 man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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See now the power of truth.
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