Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
GALILEO GALILEIWe cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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See now the power of truth.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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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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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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