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.
GALILEO GALILEITo be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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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