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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More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The 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.
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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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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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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.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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