Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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 entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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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.
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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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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 Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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