We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
GALILEO GALILEIFacts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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