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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.

Galileo Galilei

In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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Excellence Future Mind Road Science
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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Darkness Earth Illuminate Moon Night Place
What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Earth Imagination Science Stupidity
We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Mathematics Number Science
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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Darkness Earth exchange Gloom Illuminate Moon Night Receive
I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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Doubt Entertainment God Help Recognize Truth
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Book Gaze Open Philosophy Stand Writing
Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Act Nature
Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Contradict One Liner Truth
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Doctrine God Nature Reveal Work
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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Atheist Believe God Intellectual Obligation Reason Sense
Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Alcohol Sunlight Togetherness Water Wine
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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Acting Human Mind Nature Remember
See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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Assure Care Contrary Experiement Glance Power Show Truth
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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Action Change Hide Indifference Man Nature Reason Understand
The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Consideration Fools Reason Vanity

Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.

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