I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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I 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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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 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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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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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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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See now the power of truth.
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