Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
GALILEO GALILEIWe 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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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