We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
GALILEO GALILEINature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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