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.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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