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.
GALILEO GALILEIGod is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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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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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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