I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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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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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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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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