I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
GALILEO GALILEIMathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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 vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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 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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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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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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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See now the power of truth.
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The 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.
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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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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