By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
GALILEO GALILEITo be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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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 can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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