Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
GALILEO GALILEIYou cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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See now the power of truth.
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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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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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I 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.
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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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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