Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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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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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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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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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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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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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