You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
GALILEO GALILEII give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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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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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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 do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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