To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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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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