There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
GALILEO GALILEIWe must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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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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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how 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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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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Facts 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.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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