I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
GALILEO GALILEIThe deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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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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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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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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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See now the power of truth.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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