Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy 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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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