Nature is written in mathematical language.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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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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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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