I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
GALILEO GALILEIWe must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find 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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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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