Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
GALILEO GALILEIWho would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
GALILEO GALILEIThe increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
GALILEO GALILEIHoly Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
GALILEO GALILEII do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
GALILEO GALILEIThat sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
GALILEO GALILEIKnowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
GALILEO GALILEIPassion is the genesis of genius.
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 GALILEIYou cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
GALILEO GALILEIScience proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
GALILEO GALILEIMathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
GALILEO GALILEIWhat greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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 GALILEIBy denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
GALILEO GALILEIWe cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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