Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
GALILEO GALILEIYou cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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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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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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