Two truths cannot contradict one another.
GALILEO GALILEII am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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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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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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