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01c. 1603 AD

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.

Galileo Galilei / quote

02c. 1603 AD

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Galileo Galilei / quote

03c. 1603 AD

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei / quote

04c. 1603 AD

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 / quote

05c. 1603 AD

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Galileo Galilei / quote