If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
GALILEO GALILEIWe cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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