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.
GALILEO GALILEINature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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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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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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See now the power of truth.
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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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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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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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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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