The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
GALILEO GALILEIThe laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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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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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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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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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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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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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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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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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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