Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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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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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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