Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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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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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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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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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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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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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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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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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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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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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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.
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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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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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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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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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