More from Galileo Galilei

  1. Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
  2. I never met a man so unknowledgeable, I could not learn something from him.
  3. All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
  4. If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
  5. I cannot without great wonder, nay more, disbelief, hear it being attributed to natural bodies as a great honor and perfection that they ar…
  6. In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
  7. See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of…
  8. My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a gl…

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