Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
GALILEO GALILEINature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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 think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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