I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
GALILEO GALILEII entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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