The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
GALILEO GALILEIThe nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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 deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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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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