In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
GALILEO GALILEIHoly Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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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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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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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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Nonetheless, it moves.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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