We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
GALILEO GALILEIIn 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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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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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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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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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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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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