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.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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 increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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