We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
GALILEO GALILEIWhere the senses fail us, reason must step in.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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 know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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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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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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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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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