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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.

Galileo Galilei

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
GALILEO GALILEI

Help Himself Man Teaching Wisdom
Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
GALILEO GALILEI

Contrary Except Impossible Nature Occur
Philosophy 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.
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Achievement Benefit Conception Dispute Philosophy Prove
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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Accomodation Attribute Essence Name Science
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Book Gaze Open Philosophy Stand Writing
You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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Force Move Science
You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Inside Inspirational Realize Teaching
I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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Believe Holy Intention Men Necessary Salve Science Spirit Truth
What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Earth Imagination Science Stupidity
Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
GALILEO GALILEI

Amaze God Infinite Thankful
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Discover Easy Point Truth Understand
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Authority Humble Individual Reason Science Worth
The 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.
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Acting Human Mind Nature Remember
I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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God Infinite Marvelous Please Thanful
Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Absolute Holy Lie Scripture Truth
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
GALILEO GALILEI

Himself Ignorant Inspirational Learning

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