What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
GALILEO GALILEII 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.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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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See now the power of truth.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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 give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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