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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.

Galileo Galilei

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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Descent Earth Motion Science
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Help Himself Man Teaching Wisdom
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Experience Mankind Matter Regard Requirement Status Teaching
Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Contrary Except Impossible Nature Occur
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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Atheist Believe God Intellectual Obligation Reason Sense
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Science Stars Togetherness Universe
Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Absolute Holy Lie Scripture Truth
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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Demonstrate Discussion Experiment Natural Problem Science Scripture Thinking
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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Achievement Benefit Conception Dispute Philosophy Prove
In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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Excellence Future Mind Road Science
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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Darkness Earth exchange Gloom Illuminate Moon Night Receive
Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Contradict One Liner Truth
I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Fear Love Night Stars
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Authority Humble Individual Reason Science Worth
Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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Heaven Holy Intend Teaching
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Modest Statement Wise

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