Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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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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 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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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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 have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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