You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
GALILEO GALILEIYou cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
GALILEO GALILEIWho would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
GALILEO GALILEIMathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
GALILEO GALILEIIn the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
GALILEO GALILEIWe see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
GALILEO GALILEISee now the power of truth.
GALILEO GALILEISee now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
GALILEO GALILEIThe deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
GALILEO GALILEIIf 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.
GALILEO GALILEIIn the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
GALILEO GALILEINature is written in mathematical language.
GALILEO GALILEIWhere the senses fail us, reason must step in.
GALILEO GALILEIIt is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
GALILEO GALILEIIn questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
GALILEO GALILEII 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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