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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.

Galileo Galilei

You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Inside Inspirational Realize Teaching
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Bad Intelligence Reason
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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Bunch Dependent Grapes Planet Revolve Sun Universe
You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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Force Move Science
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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Darkness Earth Illuminate Moon Night Place
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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God Language Law Mathematics Nature Writing
I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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Believe Holy Intention Men Necessary Salve Science Spirit Truth
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Discover Help People Teaching
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Experience Mankind Matter Regard Requirement Status Teaching
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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Interest Philosophy Reason Science
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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Advice Beginning Follow Mathematics Study
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Authority Humble Individual Reason Science Worth
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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Action Change Hide Indifference Man Nature Reason Understand
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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Acting Human Mind Nature Remember
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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Excellence Future Mind Road Science
See now the power of truth.
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Justice One Liner Power Science Truth

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