The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
GALILEO GALILEIThere are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Nature 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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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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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