The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
GALILEO GALILEIWhat greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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See now the power of truth.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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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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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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