There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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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 Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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