The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
GALILEO GALILEIWhere the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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