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Firsts Quotes by Galileo Galilei
- 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…
- Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
- The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in…
- Being beautiful is not in the way you dress nor on the pigments you put in your face. Being beautiful is being simple.All girls are…
- 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…
- Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it…
- Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if…
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