In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
GALILEO GALILEIThe vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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 Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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