In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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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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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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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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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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 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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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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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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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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