The 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 GALILEIEarth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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See now the power of truth.
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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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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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