It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
GALILEO GALILEISee 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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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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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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See now the power of truth.
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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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