Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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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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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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