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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.

Galileo Galilei

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Book Gaze Open Philosophy Stand Writing
Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Absolute Holy Lie Scripture Truth
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 deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Consideration Fools Reason Vanity
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Science Understand Vain
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Modest Statement Wise
I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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God Infinite Marvelous Please Thanful
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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Atheist Believe God Intellectual Obligation Reason Sense
The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Divine Indeed Infinite Intellectual
Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Absolute Holy Lie Scripture Truth
Nonetheless, it moves.
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One Liner Science
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Failure One Liner Reason Science Sense Step
What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Earth Imagination Science Stupidity
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
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Bad Intelligence Reason
The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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Darkness Earth exchange Gloom Illuminate Moon Night Receive

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