Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
GALILEO GALILEIWho would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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