All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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See now the power of truth.
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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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I 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.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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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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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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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