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.
GALILEO GALILEIIn 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.
GALILEO GALILEIThe nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
GALILEO GALILEII have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
GALILEO GALILEIWho would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
GALILEO GALILEIYou cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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 GALILEIWhat greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
GALILEO GALILEINature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
GALILEO GALILEIWhere the senses fail us, reason must step in.
GALILEO GALILEIGod is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
GALILEO GALILEIThe 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 GALILEII give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
GALILEO GALILEIMeasure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
GALILEO GALILEII 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.
GALILEO GALILEIIn 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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