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.
GALILEO GALILEIThe 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.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
GALILEO GALILEIIn questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
GALILEO GALILEIWine is sunlight, held together by water.
GALILEO GALILEIThe 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.
GALILEO GALILEIHoly Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
GALILEO GALILEIIf I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEII do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
GALILEO GALILEIThe vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEINonetheless, it moves.
GALILEO GALILEIWe must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
GALILEO GALILEIYou can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
GALILEO GALILEII think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
GALILEO GALILEIBeing 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.
GALILEO GALILEIIf 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 GALILEINature is written in mathematical language.
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