To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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 greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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