Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
GALILEO GALILEIMathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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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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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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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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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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