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

Galileo Galilei

I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
GALILEO GALILEI

Interest Philosophy Reason Science
I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
GALILEO GALILEI

Case Heaven Look Surprise
I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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Doubt Entertainment God Help Recognize Truth
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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Believe Holy Intention Men Necessary Salve Science Spirit Truth
What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Earth Imagination Science Stupidity
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
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
Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Dare Science
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Help Himself Man Teaching Wisdom
The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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Darkness Earth exchange Gloom Illuminate Moon Night Receive
Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Greatness Inspiratioal One Liner Self Love Wisdom
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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Demonstrate Discussion Experiment Natural Problem Science Scripture Thinking
Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Language Mathemetics Nature One Liner
Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Contrary Except Impossible Nature Occur
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Modest Statement Wise
See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
GALILEO GALILEI

Assure Care Contrary Experiement Glance Power Show Truth

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