Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
GALILEO GALILEINature is written in mathematical language.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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