Passion is the genesis of genius.
GALILEO GALILEIIt is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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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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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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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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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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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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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