I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
GALILEO GALILEIIn questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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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 see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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