The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEIEarth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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