What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
GALILEO GALILEIGod is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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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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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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