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 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.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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