Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen, exposing these plainly to the eye in numbers ten times exceeding the old and familiar stars.

Galileo Galilei
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More Quotes By Galileo Galilei
  1. I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

  2. 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 the contrary.

  3. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

  4. You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

  5. By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

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