I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
GALILEO GALILEINothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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 Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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 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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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