I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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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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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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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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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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See now the power of truth.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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