I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
GALILEO GALILEIFacts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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