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• Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

  Galileo Galilei

  Drinking, Food, Wine

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• [Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood.

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  Doctrine, Copernicus, Scripture

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• Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

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  Dare, Knows, Known

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• Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

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  Impossible, Contrary

  Galileo Galilei (2010). “Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

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  Believe, Soul, Orthodox

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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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  Moving, Wish, May

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• If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.

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  Nature, Dark, Moon

  Galileo Galilei, Andrea Frova, Mariapiera Marenzana (2006). “Thus Spoke Galileo: The Great Scientist's Ideas and Their Relevance to the Present Day”, p.201, Oxford University Press

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• It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

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  Answers, Vex, Scripture

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• Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside.

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  Men, Taught, Helping

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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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  Truth, Inspiration, Independent

  "Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men". Book by François Arago, as translated by Baden Powell, Robert Grant, and William Fairbairn, p. 365, 1859.

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• With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

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  People, Matter, Arguing

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• In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads.

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  Running, Men, Long

  "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems". Book by Galileo Galilei (p. 322), 1632.

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• Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men.

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  Nature, Men, Law

  Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, 1615.

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• See now the power of truth.

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  Galileo Galilei (1914). “Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences”, p.164, Courier Corporation

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• By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

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  Science, Religion, Principles

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• Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.

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  Science, Accounts

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• Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.

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  Book, Heaven, Going To Heaven

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• I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration.

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  Wise, Father, Differences

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• It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

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  Beautiful, Moon, Sight

  Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler (2016). “The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei and a Part of the Preface to Kepler's Dioptrics Containing the Original Account of Galileo's Astronomical Discoveries”, p.9, Library of Alexandria

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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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  Science, Thinking, Scripture

  "Pale Blue Dot". Book by Carl Sagan (p. 43), 1994.

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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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  Mean, Doe, Can Do

  Galileo Galilei (1967). “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition”, p.117, Univ of California Press

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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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  Believe, Mean, Men

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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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  Firsts, Glances, Shows

  Galileo Galilei (1914). “Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences”, p.164, Courier Corporation

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• Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.

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  Bible, Lying, Scripture

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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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  Giving, Age, Firsts

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