We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
GALILEO GALILEIIn questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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