The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
GALILEO GALILEIThe deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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