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Great Quotes by Galileo Galilei
- 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…
- The number of fixed stars which observers have been able to see without artificial powers of sight up to this day can be counted. It…
- The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be, but is uneven,…
- Nature's great book is written in mathematics.
- Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person…
- Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have…
- Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it…
- 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…
- Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if…
- Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it if we do not first learn the…
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