Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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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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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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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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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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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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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