For my part I consider the earth very noble and admirable precisely because of the diverse alterations, changes, … - Galileo Galilei

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In New York State they have a strange law that says you can't get a divorce unless you can prove adultery - and it's weird, because the Ten Commandments say 'Thou shalt not commit adultery. ' But New York State says you have to. Well, finally, what happened was that my wife committed adultery for me. She's always been more mechanically inclined than I have.

Galileo Galilei

For my part I consider the earth very noble and admirable precisely because of the diverse alterations, changes, generations, etc. that occur in it incessantly.

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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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