Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
GALILEO GALILEII entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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See now the power of truth.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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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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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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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