I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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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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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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 know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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See now the power of truth.
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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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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 Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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