To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
GALILEO GALILEITo be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
GALILEO GALILEIIn the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
GALILEO GALILEIEarth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
GALILEO GALILEIWe see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
GALILEO GALILEIThe deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
GALILEO GALILEINature is written in mathematical language.
GALILEO GALILEIAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
GALILEO GALILEITo be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
GALILEO GALILEIThe vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEII’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
GALILEO GALILEINature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
GALILEO GALILEIScience proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
GALILEO GALILEIHoly Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
GALILEO GALILEII do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
GALILEO GALILEIWine is sunlight, held together by water.
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.
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