In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
GALILEO GALILEII 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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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See now the power of truth.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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