Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
GALILEO GALILEIPassion is the genesis of genius.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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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.
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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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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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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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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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See now the power of truth.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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