The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEIWhere the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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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 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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