The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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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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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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See now the power of truth.
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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 give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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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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