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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei
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Galileo Galilei
Age: 77 †
Born: 1564
Born: February 15
Died: 1642
Died: January 8
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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic. Who knows but men will reduce me from the profession of a philosopher to that of historian of the Inquisition!
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Showing a greater fondness for their own opinions than for truth, they sought to deny and disprove the new things which, if they had cared to look for themselves, their own senses would have demonstrated to them.
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