You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
GALILEO GALILEIYou may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
GALILEO GALILEIWho would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
GALILEO GALILEIScience proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
GALILEO GALILEIAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
GALILEO GALILEII do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
GALILEO GALILEII think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
GALILEO GALILEIMathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
GALILEO GALILEIIf I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEITwo truths cannot contradict one another.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
GALILEO GALILEITo be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
GALILEO GALILEINames and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
GALILEO GALILEIThe increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
GALILEO GALILEIKnowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
GALILEO GALILEIBeing infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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