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Quotes from Dialogues and Mathematical Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences — Galileo Galilei

1564–1642 Italy

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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.

Dialogues and Mathematical Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences (1638)

Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is not impossible for infinitely many voids to be found.

Dialogues and Mathematical Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences (1638)

Proposition I. Theorem I: When a projectile is carried in motion compounded from equable horizontal and from naturally accelerated downward [motions], it describes a semiparabolic line in its movement.

Dialogues and Mathematical Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences (1638)

I have succeeded in proving; and what I consider more important, there have been opened up to this vast and most excellent science, of which my work is merely the beginning, ways and means by which other minds more acute than mine will explore its remote corners.

Dialogues and Mathematical Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences (1638)

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