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.
GALILEO GALILEIIn 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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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