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Galileo Galilei Quote - You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.

You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.

Galileo Galilei

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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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