You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
GALILEO GALILEIThe increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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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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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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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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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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