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Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei was an Italian scientist and a philosopher who managed to play a significant role in the scientific revolution. Owing to his amazing work in a lot of different fields, he has been hailed as the founding father of a lot of different fields that include the following. He is known as “father of modern observational astronomy”, “father of modern ... Galileo Galilei biography

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. (Galileo Galilei)

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Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person of independent genius, [but he] became interested in the action of the moon on the water, and in other occult phenomena, and similar childishness. (Galileo Galilei)

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And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state. (Galileo Galilei)

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But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant, either in time or place? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man. (Galileo Galilei)

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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox. (Galileo Galilei)

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Doubt is the father of invention. (Galileo Galilei)

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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. (Galileo Galilei)

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Having been admonished by this Holy Office [the Inquisition] entirely to abandon the false opinion that the Sun was the center of the universe and immovable, and that the Earth was not the center of the same and that it moved... I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church. (Galileo Galilei)

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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. (Galileo Galilei)

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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldnt learn something from him. (Galileo Galilei)

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