You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
GALILEO GALILEIIf 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.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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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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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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