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.
GALILEO GALILEIAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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