All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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