You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
GALILEO GALILEIEarth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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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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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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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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