Two truths cannot contradict one another.
GALILEO GALILEIHoly Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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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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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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