The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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See now the power of truth.
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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 think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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