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.
GALILEO GALILEINothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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