You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
GALILEO GALILEII am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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