Quote by Galileo Galilei
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth

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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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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The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics…the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word. – 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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There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. – Anton Chekhov

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The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemys heels. – A. J. Liebling

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