Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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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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