Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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