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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.

Galileo Galilei

The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Divine Indeed Infinite Intellectual
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Science Understand Vain
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Modest Statement Wise
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Experience Mankind Matter Regard Requirement Status Teaching
Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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God Language Mathematics Universe Writing
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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Amaze God Infinite Thankful
Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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Achievement Benefit Conception Dispute Philosophy Prove
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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Interest Philosophy Reason Science
I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Fear Love Night Stars
Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Contrary Except Impossible Nature Occur
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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Acting Human Mind Nature Remember
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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God Heaven Path
Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Absolute Holy Lie Scripture Truth
Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Alcohol Sunlight Togetherness Water Wine
You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
GALILEO GALILEI

Inside Inspirational Realize Teaching
Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
GALILEO GALILEI

Measure Science

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