Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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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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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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 deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Nonetheless, 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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