The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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See 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.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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See now the power of truth.
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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 deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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