"Their vain presumption of knowing all can take……" — 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 knowledge of one thing, and truly tasted what it is to know, he shall perceive that of infinite other conclusions he understands not so much as one."
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Galileo Galilei
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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 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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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