Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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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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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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 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.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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See now the power of truth.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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