The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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 have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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See now the power of 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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