Galileo Galilei Quotes

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  The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.

  Galileo Galilei

  Hands, Law, Language

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  All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspirational, Truth, Science

  "Angels in the workplace: stories and inspirations for creating a new world of work". Book by Melissa Giovagnoli, 1999.

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  You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.

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  Happiness, Inspirational Life, Answers

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  I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

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  Inspirational, Attitude, Learning

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  In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

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  Men, Sparks, Tiny

  "Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo". Book by Stillman Drake (p. 134 - 135), 1957.

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• Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

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  Knowing, Greatest Wisdom, Thyself

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• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

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  Spiritual, Atheist, Believe

  "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina". Essay by Galileo Galilei, 1615.

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  Two truths cannot contradict one another.

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  Truth, Two

  Galileo Galilei (1997). “Galileo on the World Systems: A New Abridged Translation and Guide”, p.103, Univ of California Press

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• To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.

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  Wise, Modest, Ready

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• To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.

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  Language, Mathematics, Written

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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.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Summer

  "Sun of gOd: Discover the Self-Organizing Consciousness That Underlies Everything". Book by Gregory Sams (p. 78), May 1, 2009.

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• Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured.

  Galileo Galilei

  Physics

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• There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.

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  Reason, Wells

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• Nonetheless, it moves.

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  Moving

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• The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

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  Science, Heaven, Way

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• The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.

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  Greatest Wisdom, Knowing Oneself, Oneself

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• You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

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  Perception, Steps, Failing

  Galileo Galilei (2010). “Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.

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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.

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  Science, Thinking, Scripture

  "Pale Blue Dot". Book by Carl Sagan (p. 43), 1994.

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• And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state.

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  Math, People, Judging

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• Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men.

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  Nature, Men, Law

  Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, 1615.

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• Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

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  Learning, Science, Discovery

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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.

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  Men, Action, Reason

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• Showing a greater fondness for their own opinions than for truth, they sought to deny and disprove the new things which, if they had cared to look for themselves, their own senses would have demonstrated to them.

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  Looks, Opinion, Cold

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• With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

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  People, Matter, Arguing

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