Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be … - Galileo Galilei

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I think Saudi Arabia often finances radical Islam and the teaching of hatred to the West and hatred of Americans. I think it is important that we know that. It's important that we know that there is a threat within and a threat without. I think we can stop it with more aggressive use of actual constitutional tools.

Galileo Galilei

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

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

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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. There remains perceptible to us only that of the stone, which is not shared by us; and, because of this, sense shows it as by a straight line, always parallel to the tower, which is built upright and perpendicular upon the terrestrial surface.

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

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