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.
GALILEO GALILEIScience proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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 earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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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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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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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