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 GALILEIFacts 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.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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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 Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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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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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.
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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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