The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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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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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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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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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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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