I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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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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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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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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