It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
GALILEO GALILEIIn time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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See 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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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 Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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