See now the power of truth.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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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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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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