It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
GALILEO GALILEIWe must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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