It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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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 Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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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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