To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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 is written in mathematical language.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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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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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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