Tag: Galileo Galilei
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
Galileo Galilei
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
Galileo Galilei
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
Galileo Galilei
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
Galileo Galilei
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Galileo Galilei
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
Galileo Galilei
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Galileo Galilei
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
Galileo Galilei
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I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.
Galileo Galilei