Italian - Scientist | February 15, 1564 - January 8, 1642
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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And yet it moves.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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.
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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.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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