You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
GALILEO GALILEII think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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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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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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