I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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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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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the 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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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