You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
GALILEO GALILEIHoly Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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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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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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