The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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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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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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