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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

Galileo Galilei

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.
GALILEO GALILEI

Believe Holy Intention Men Necessary Salve Science Spirit Truth
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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God Language Law Mathematics Nature Writing
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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Bunch Dependent Grapes Planet Revolve Sun Universe
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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Assure Care Contrary Experiement Glance Power Show Truth
Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Earth Move Round Science Sun
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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Darkness Earth exchange Gloom Illuminate Moon Night Receive
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Discover Easy Point Truth Understand
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
Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Act Nature
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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Interest Philosophy Reason Science
I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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Case Heaven Look Surprise
The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Divine Indeed Infinite Intellectual
The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Greatness One Liner Self Love Wisdom
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Failure One Liner Reason Science Sense Step
Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Absolute Holy Lie Scripture Truth
Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Measure Science

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