The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
GALILEO GALILEIThe vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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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.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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