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 GALILEIThe 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.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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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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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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