The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEIYou cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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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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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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Nonetheless, it moves.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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