The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEIIt is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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 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.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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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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