Passion is the genesis of genius.
GALILEO GALILEIIn time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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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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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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See now the power of 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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