To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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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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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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