We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
GALILEO GALILEIGod is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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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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See 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.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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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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