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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The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes. – 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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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. – Galileo Galilei

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Facts are not science — as the dictionary is not literature. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science – steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains – none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last centurys attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. – James Buchan

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Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history. – John Coleman

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You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. – Imogen Cunningham

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