You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
GALILEO GALILEII entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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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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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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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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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.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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See now the power of truth.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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