The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEIThe vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEIAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
GALILEO GALILEIFacts 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.
GALILEO GALILEISee 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.
GALILEO GALILEIWe must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
GALILEO GALILEILong experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
GALILEO GALILEINature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
GALILEO GALILEIYou can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
GALILEO GALILEIMathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
GALILEO GALILEIYou may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
GALILEO GALILEIGod is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
GALILEO GALILEITo be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
GALILEO GALILEIMathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
GALILEO GALILEII think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
GALILEO GALILEIIt is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
GALILEO GALILEII do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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