Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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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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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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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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 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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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 deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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