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.
GALILEO GALILEIEarth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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See 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.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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