We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
GALILEO GALILEIIf you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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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.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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