You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
GALILEO GALILEIIt is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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See now the power of truth.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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