I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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