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.
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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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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 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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