We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
GALILEO GALILEIKnowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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