The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEIThe 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.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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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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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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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