Tag: Galileo Galilei
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
Galileo Galilei
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Galileo Galilei
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
Galileo Galilei
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
Galileo Galilei
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He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.
Galileo Galilei
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
Galileo Galilei
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei