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.
GALILEO GALILEIWhat greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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