You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
GALILEO GALILEINames and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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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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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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