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.
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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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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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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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