You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
GALILEO GALILEIThe earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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