In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
GALILEO GALILEII’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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