The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
It is necessary for the Bible, in order to be accommodated to the understanding of every man, to speak many things which… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly...… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The theologians also should not be irritated. For if they find that this opinion is false, then they would be free to… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I am inclined to think that the authority of Holy Scripture is intended to convince men of those truths which are necessary… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets,… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
“(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.” — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what they are… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: The intention of the Holy Spirit is to… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own eyes again… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
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