I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
GALILEO GALILEIKnowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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