Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
GALILEO GALILEIPassion is the genesis of genius.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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Being 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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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