The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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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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