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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
“for two truths can never contradict each other.”
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's principle that a demonstrated natural fact and the true sense of Scripture must agree, which he says he finds in Augustine.
Citation: "for two truths can never contradict each other." — 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-q6)
Portrait: Galileo.arp.300pix, Justus Sustermans, Public domain.
