The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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 vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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