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.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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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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See now the power of truth.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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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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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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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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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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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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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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