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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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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 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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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