If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
GALILEO GALILEIHoly Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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See now the power of truth.
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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.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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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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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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