Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
GALILEO GALILEIYou cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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See now the power of truth.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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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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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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