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.
GALILEO GALILEIEarth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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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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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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See now the power of truth.
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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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