In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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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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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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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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