The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEII do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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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 Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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 laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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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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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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See now the power of truth.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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