In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei
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More quotes by 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.
- If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
- 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.
- I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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