Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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 am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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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 may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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