Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
GALILEO GALILEIIf you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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