Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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See now the power of truth.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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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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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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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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