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 GALILEIIn the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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