Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
GALILEO GALILEIYou may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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