All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
GALILEO GALILEIThe increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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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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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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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 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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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