Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
GALILEO GALILEIIn 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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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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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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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