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.
GALILEO GALILEIWe must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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