I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
GALILEO GALILEII am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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See now the power of truth.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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