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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Galileo Galilei

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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Accomodation Attribute Essence Name Science
We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Mathematics Number Science
Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Absolute Holy Lie Scripture Truth
We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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Descent Earth Motion Science
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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Aware Knowledge Teaching
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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Darkness Earth exchange Gloom Illuminate Moon Night Receive
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Failure One Liner Reason Science Sense Step
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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Astronomy Earth Opinion Philosophy Round Science Study Sun Universe
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Help Himself Man Teaching Wisdom
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Bad Intelligence Reason
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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God Heaven Path
Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Genesis Genius One Liner Passion
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Science Stars Togetherness Universe
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Account Ignorance Learning Proceed Science
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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Demonstrate Discussion Experiment Natural Problem Science Scripture Thinking
Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Dare Science

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

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