The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
GALILEO GALILEIIt is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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