Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
GALILEO GALILEIThe Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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See now the power of truth.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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