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Galileo Galilei
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Quote 3399
I shall only add a promise to peruse your book dispassionately, and with a conviction that I shall find in it much to admire.by: Galileo GalileiQuote 3398
This sort of men fancied that philosophy was to be studied like the Aeneid or Odyssey, and that the true reading of nature was to be detected by the collation of texts.by: Galileo GalileiQuote 3388
I have collected many arguments for the purpose of refuting the latter; but I do not venture to bring them to the light of publicity, for fear of sharing the fate of our master, Copernicus, who, although he has earned immortal fame with some, yet with very many has become an object of ridicule and scorn.by: Galileo GalileiQuote 3387
I count myself happy, in the search after truth, to have so great an ally as yourself, and one who is so great a friend of the truth itself.by: Galileo GalileiQuote 3386
When we have the decrees of Nature, authority goes for nothing; reason is absolute.by: Galileo GalileiQuote 3385
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes, I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written.by: Galileo GalileiQuote 1189
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 doby: Galileo GalileiMore quotes on the topics: nature dependence work universe power
Quote 367
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover themby: Galileo GalileiMore quotes on the topics: truth understanding discovery aims
Quote 325
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from himby: Galileo GalileiMore quotes on the topics: ignorance learning people opportunity wisdom
Quote 71
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to discover it in himselfby: Galileo GalileiMore quotes on the topics: knowledge assistence discovery
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