You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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See now the power of truth.
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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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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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