The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
GALILEO GALILEINames and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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