There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
GALILEO GALILEIYou can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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See now the power of truth.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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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 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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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