The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
GALILEO GALILEIHoly Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
GALILEO GALILEIWine is sunlight, held together by water.
GALILEO GALILEISee now the power of truth.
GALILEO GALILEIWe must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
GALILEO GALILEINothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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.
GALILEO GALILEIThe deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
GALILEO GALILEINature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy 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.
GALILEO GALILEIThe 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.
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 GALILEIWe cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
GALILEO GALILEINonetheless, it moves.
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 GALILEIThat sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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