The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEI
Holy 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 laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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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Philosophy 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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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.
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