To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
GALILEO GALILEIAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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See now the power of truth.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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