The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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 give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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.
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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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 increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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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