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.
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.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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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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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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