I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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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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