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"I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God."
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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."
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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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"God's dice always have a lucky roll."
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"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."
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"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."
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"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."
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"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves."
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"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."
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"Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth."
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"Mathematics is written for mathematicians."
Mathematicians
"Near the sun is the center of the universe."
Sun
"Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions."
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"Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms."
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"Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe."
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"I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God."
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"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle."
Earth
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