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.
GALILEO GALILEIMathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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See now the power of truth.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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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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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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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 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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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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