The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
GALILEO GALILEIHoly Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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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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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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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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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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