To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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