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.
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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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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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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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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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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