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.
GALILEO GALILEIWe cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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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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