What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
GALILEO GALILEIThe greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of 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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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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Nonetheless, it moves.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Philosophy 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.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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