I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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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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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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