We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
GALILEO GALILEIBy denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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