We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
GALILEO GALILEIBeing 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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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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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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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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.
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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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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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.
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