It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
GALILEO GALILEII do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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 increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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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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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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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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