"Science proceeds more by what it has learned……" — Galileo Galilei
"Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account."
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104 Quotes by Galileo Galilei
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I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason,…
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I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I…
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I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and…
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in…
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Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has…
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists…
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But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to…
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The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to…
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Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit…
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look…
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