Two truths cannot contradict one another.
GALILEO GALILEISee now the power of truth.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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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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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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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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