Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
GALILEO GALILEIThe Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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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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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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See now the power of truth.
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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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