Two truths cannot contradict one another.
GALILEO GALILEIThere are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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See now the power of truth.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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If 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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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 Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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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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