The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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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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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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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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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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See now the power of truth.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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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 deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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