To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
GALILEO GALILEIHoly Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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