You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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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 greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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