I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
GALILEO GALILEIHoly Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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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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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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