Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
GALILEO GALILEIThe deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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