We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
GALILEO GALILEIWe cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
GALILEO GALILEIIf I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEIBy denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
GALILEO GALILEILong experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
GALILEO GALILEIThe 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.
GALILEO GALILEIIn 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.
GALILEO GALILEIIn questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
GALILEO GALILEIYou cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
GALILEO GALILEIThe greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
GALILEO GALILEINonetheless, it moves.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
GALILEO GALILEIYou may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
GALILEO GALILEIMathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
GALILEO GALILEII’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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