If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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