Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
GALILEO GALILEIWhat greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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See now the power of truth.
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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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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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