I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
GALILEO GALILEIMeasure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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The 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.
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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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See now the power of truth.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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