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.
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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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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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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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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