I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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See now the power of truth.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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