Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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 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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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