We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
GALILEO GALILEINonetheless, it moves.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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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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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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