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.
GALILEO GALILEII 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.
GALILEO GALILEIThat sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
GALILEO GALILEIThe deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
GALILEO GALILEIIt is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
GALILEO GALILEIThe laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEIAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
GALILEO GALILEIIn questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
GALILEO GALILEIIn the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
GALILEO GALILEITo be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
GALILEO GALILEIPassion is the genesis of genius.
GALILEO GALILEIIf I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEIThe 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.
GALILEO GALILEII have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
GALILEO GALILEII entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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