I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
GALILEO GALILEIEarth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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