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.
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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See now the power of truth.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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