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From Quotes by Galileo Galilei
- Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once experienced the perfect…
- But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the…
- 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…
- I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach…
- But what exceeds all wonders, I have discovered four new planets and observed their proper and particular motions, different among themselves and from the motions…
- When the moon is ninety degrees away from the sun it sees but half the earth illuminated (the western half). For the other (the eastern…
- It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood.…
- I truly believe the book of philosophy to be that which stands perpetually open before our eyes, though since it is written in characters different…
- I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
- What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed the…
- In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity. The distance between you…
- I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of the universe and…
- They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly... Hence they have…
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