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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.

Galileo Galilei

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Believe Harm Prove Science Soul
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Book Gaze Open Philosophy Stand Writing
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Doctrine God Nature Reveal Work
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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God Heaven Path
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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Atheist Believe God Intellectual Obligation Reason Sense
The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Consideration Fools Reason Vanity
Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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God Language Mathematics Universe Writing
Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Act Nature
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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Darkness Earth Illuminate Moon Night Place
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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Accomodation Attribute Essence Name Science
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Discover Help People Teaching
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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Book Eyes Language Philosophy Understand Universe Writing
Nonetheless, it moves.
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One Liner Science
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Discover Easy Point Truth Understand
That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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Admire Painting Reason relief Sculpture
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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Descent Earth Motion Science

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