You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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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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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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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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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 give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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