If 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 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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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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