Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy 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.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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 Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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