The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
GALILEO GALILEIEarth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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