You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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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 see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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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 Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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