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Men Quotes by Galileo Galilei
- Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and…
- I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means…
- But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any…
- It reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypotheses. To refute the…
- 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…
- I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
- Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
- You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
- In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
- Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them,…
- Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
- 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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