The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
GALILEO GALILEIEarth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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 Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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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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Nonetheless, it moves.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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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.
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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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