We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
GALILEO GALILEIWe see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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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 increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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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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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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