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Galileo Galilei
Age: 77 †
Born: 1564
Born: February 15
Died: 1642
Died: January 8
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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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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I, Galileo, son of the late Vicenzo Galilei, swear that I never said that the prime numbers are useless. What I said was that you cannot count lunar craters by counting 2, 3, 5, 7.
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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.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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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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You may force me to say what you wish you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be, but is uneven, rough, and full of cavities and prominences, being not unlike the face of the Earth, relieved by chains of mountains and deep valleys.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration.
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If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets, and historians, this will mean nothing and we must believe their words rather than our own eyes?
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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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