Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
GALILEO GALILEIHoly Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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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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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.
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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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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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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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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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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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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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 my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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