Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
GALILEO GALILEIHoly Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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See now the power of truth.
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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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