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

Galileo Galilei

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
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
The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Art Establishment Growth Increase Investigation Truth
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Failure One Liner Reason Science Sense Step
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Science Understand Vain
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Help Himself Man Teaching Wisdom
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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God Heaven Path
You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Inside Inspirational Realize Teaching
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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Darkness Earth exchange Gloom Illuminate Moon Night Receive
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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Authority Individual Man Opinion Reason Science Spark Worth
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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Achievement Benefit Conception Dispute Philosophy Prove
Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Contradict One Liner Truth
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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Astronomy Earth Opinion Philosophy Round Science Study Sun Universe
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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Admire Painting Reason relief Sculpture
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Discover Help People Teaching
Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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God Language Mathematics Universe Writing

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