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.
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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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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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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See now the power of truth.
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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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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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