Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
GALILEO GALILEIGod is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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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.
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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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See now the power of truth.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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