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.
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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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 sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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See now the power of truth.
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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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