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.
GALILEO GALILEII 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.
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 Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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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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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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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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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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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