You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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 greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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.
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