Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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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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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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See now the power of truth.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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