In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
GALILEO GALILEIScience proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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See now the power of truth.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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