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 GALILEISee 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.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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