The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
GALILEO GALILEIWe see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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See now the power of truth.
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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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