We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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