To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
GALILEO GALILEIThere are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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See now the power of truth.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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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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