Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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 may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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