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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.

Galileo Galilei

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Believe Harm Prove Science Soul
Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Language Mathemetics Nature One Liner
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Doctrine God Nature Reveal Work
I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Fear Love Night Stars
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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Explanation Fact Hide Naked Science
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Deny Maintain Principle Science Truth
The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Art Establishment Growth Increase Investigation Truth
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Modest Statement Wise
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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Acting Human Mind Nature Remember
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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Believe Holy Intention Men Necessary Salve Science Spirit Truth
Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Contradict One Liner Truth
Nature 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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Action Change Hide Indifference Man Nature Reason Understand
What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Earth Imagination Science Stupidity
The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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Darkness Earth exchange Gloom Illuminate Moon Night Receive
Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Absolute Holy Lie Scripture Truth
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Science Understand Vain

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