I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with 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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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