The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEIThe 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.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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