Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
GALILEO GALILEIThe deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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I 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.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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See now the power of truth.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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