Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
GALILEO GALILEIHoly Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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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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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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 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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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