Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
GALILEO GALILEII am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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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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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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