Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
GALILEO GALILEINothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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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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See now the power of truth.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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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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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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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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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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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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