The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
GALILEO GALILEIThat sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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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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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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