You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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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 do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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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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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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