You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
GALILEO GALILEINature 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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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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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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