In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
GALILEO GALILEIIn 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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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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See now the power of truth.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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