In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
GALILEO GALILEIYou cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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See now the power of truth.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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We 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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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