Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
GALILEO GALILEILong experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
GALILEO GALILEINothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
GALILEO GALILEIBeing infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
GALILEO GALILEIIn time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
GALILEO GALILEIIt is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
GALILEO GALILEIThe deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
GALILEO GALILEIWe see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
GALILEO GALILEIAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
GALILEO GALILEINature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
GALILEO GALILEIThe increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
GALILEO GALILEIScience proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
GALILEO GALILEIWe must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
GALILEO GALILEIYou can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
GALILEO GALILEII give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
GALILEO GALILEIIf I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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