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Galileo Galilei Quote - To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.

To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.

Galileo Galilei

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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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Discover Humanity Progress Science
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Science Stars Togetherness Universe
We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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 think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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 cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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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 entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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