I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
GALILEO GALILEIThere are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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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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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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