Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
GALILEO GALILEIThe earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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