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 increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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See now the power of truth.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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