God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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 deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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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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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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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 do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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