What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
GALILEO GALILEIWhere the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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 Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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