I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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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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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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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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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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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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See now the power of truth.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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