You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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