See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
GALILEO GALILEIHoly Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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 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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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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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 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.
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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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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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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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