I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
GALILEO GALILEIWho would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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