The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
GALILEO GALILEII do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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See now the power of truth.
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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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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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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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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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