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.
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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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 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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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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