What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
GALILEO GALILEIWhere the senses fail us, reason must step in.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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