By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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 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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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