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In 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.

Galileo Galilei

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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Atheist Believe God Intellectual Obligation Reason Sense
What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Earth Imagination Science Stupidity
The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Consideration Fools Reason Vanity
Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Contrary Except Impossible Nature Occur
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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Astronomy Earth Opinion Philosophy Round Science Study Sun Universe
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Science Understand Vain
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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Aware Knowledge Teaching
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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Demonstrate Discussion Experiment Natural Problem Science Scripture Thinking
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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Descent Earth Motion Science
Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Dare Science
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Help Himself Man Teaching Wisdom
Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Language Mathemetics Nature One Liner
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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God Heaven Path
Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Act Nature
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Believe Harm Prove Science Soul
The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Divine Indeed Infinite Intellectual

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