You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
GALILEO GALILEINature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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