In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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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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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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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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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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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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