Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
GALILEO GALILEIThe greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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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