In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
GALILEO GALILEIYou may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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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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Nonetheless, it moves.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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