In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
GALILEO GALILEIPassion is the genesis of genius.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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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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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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See now the power of truth.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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 deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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