I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
GALILEO GALILEIWe cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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In 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.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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