Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
GALILEO GALILEIAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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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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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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