In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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See now the power of truth.
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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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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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