There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
GALILEO GALILEIKnowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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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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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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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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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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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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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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