I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit..Galileo Galilei
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
Galileo Galilei
To command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them not to see what they do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find what they do not discover.
Galileo Galilei
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.
Galileo Galilei
The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions than we can ever know. But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty.
Galileo Galilei
We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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