Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
GALILEO GALILEIIt is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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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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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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 greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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