In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
GALILEO GALILEIIn 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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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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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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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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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