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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

Galileo Galilei

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.
GALILEO GALILEI

Amaze God Infinite Thankful
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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Action Change Hide Indifference Man Nature Reason Understand
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Doctrine God Nature Reveal Work
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 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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Acting Human Mind Nature Remember
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Help Himself Man Teaching Wisdom
Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Absolute Holy Lie Scripture Truth
The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Divine Indeed Infinite Intellectual
Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Alcohol Sunlight Togetherness Water Wine
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Modest Statement Wise
Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Dare Science
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
GALILEO GALILEI

Experience Mankind Matter Regard Requirement Status Teaching
The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Greatness One Liner Self Love Wisdom
You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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Force Move Science
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Science Understand Vain
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

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