In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
GALILEO GALILEIPassion is the genesis of genius.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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 have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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 deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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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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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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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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