I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
GALILEO GALILEIWe 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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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