I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy 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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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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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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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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