The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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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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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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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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