I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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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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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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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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 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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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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