The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
GALILEO GALILEIMathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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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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Being 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.
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Philosophy 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.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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