We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
GALILEO GALILEIMathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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