I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
GALILEO GALILEIWe must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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