I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
GALILEO GALILEII have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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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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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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 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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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