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.
GALILEO GALILEIFacts 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.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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 Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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