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.
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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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