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.
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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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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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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