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 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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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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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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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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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.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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