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Galileo Galilei

Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
GALILEO GALILEI

Amaze God Infinite Thankful
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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Accomodation Attribute Essence Name Science
The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Divine Indeed Infinite Intellectual
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Discover Easy Point Truth Understand
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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Darkness Earth Illuminate Moon Night Place
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Door Key Mathematics Science
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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Assure Care Contrary Experiement Glance Power Show Truth
I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Fear Love Night Stars
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Authority Humble Individual Reason Science Worth
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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Bunch Dependent Grapes Planet Revolve Sun Universe
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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God Heaven Path
The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Greatness One Liner Self Love Wisdom
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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Book Eyes Language Philosophy Understand Universe Writing
Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Dare Science
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Believe Harm Prove Science Soul
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Doctrine God Nature Reveal Work

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