If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEIYou can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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 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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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See now the power of truth.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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