We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
GALILEO GALILEINature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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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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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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