QuoteQuest“Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.”
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- Wikiquote: Galileo Galilei
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- Wikiquote
Context
As quoted in Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1957) by Stillman Drake, p. 92
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Galilei, Galileo. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Galileo Galilei. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
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