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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.

Galileo Galilei

The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Science Understand Vain
The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Divine Indeed Infinite Intellectual
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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God Heaven Path
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Discover Help People Teaching
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.
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Explanation Fact Hide Naked Science
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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Achievement Benefit Conception Dispute Philosophy Prove
Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Absolute Holy Lie Scripture Truth
Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Contradict One Liner Truth
What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Earth Imagination Science Stupidity
The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Consideration Fools Reason Vanity
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Deny Maintain Principle Science Truth
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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Discover Humanity Progress Science
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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Atheist Believe God Intellectual Obligation Reason Sense
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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Amaze God Infinite Thankful
I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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God Infinite Marvelous Please Thanful
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Believe Harm Prove Science Soul

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