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Quotation from Galileo: The Starry Messenger, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, and Two New Sciences (First Day) by Galileo Galilei
“That it is both piously spoken, and prudently affirmed, That the Sacred Scripture can never lye, when ever its true meaning is understood”
Galileo: The Starry Messenger, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, and Two New Sciences (First Day), Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, trans. Thomas Salusbury (1661)
Galileo grants his critics' premise that Scripture cannot err and then turns attention to the difficulty of its true meaning.
Citation: "That it is both piously spoken, and prudently affirmed, That the Sacred Scripture can never lye, when ever its true meaning is understood" — Galileo Galilei, Galileo: The Starry Messenger, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, and Two New Sciences (First Day), Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, trans. Thomas Salusbury (1661). (id galileo-selected-writings-q3)
Portrait: Galileo.arp.300pix, Justus Sustermans, Public domain.
