In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
GALILEO GALILEIKnowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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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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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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