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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.

Galileo Galilei

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.
GALILEO GALILEI

Explanation Fact Hide Naked Science
I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
GALILEO GALILEI

God Infinite Marvelous Please Thanful
I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
GALILEO GALILEI

Believe Holy Intention Men Necessary Salve Science Spirit Truth
I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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Case Heaven Look Surprise
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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Admire Painting Reason relief Sculpture
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Account Ignorance Learning Proceed Science
We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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Descent Earth Motion Science
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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Atheist Believe God Intellectual Obligation Reason Sense
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 GALILEI

Book Eyes Language Philosophy Understand Universe Writing
You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
GALILEO GALILEI

Force Move Science
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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Achievement Benefit Conception Dispute Philosophy Prove
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
GALILEO GALILEI

Deny Maintain Principle Science Truth
You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
GALILEO GALILEI

Inside Inspirational Realize Teaching
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Help Himself Man Teaching Wisdom
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Modest Statement Wise
The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
GALILEO GALILEI

Divine Indeed Infinite Intellectual

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