Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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