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.
GALILEO GALILEIThat sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable 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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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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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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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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