Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
GALILEO GALILEINature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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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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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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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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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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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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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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Nonetheless, it moves.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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