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.Galileo Galilei
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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To command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them not to see what they do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find what they do not discover.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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