The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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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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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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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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