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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

~Galileo Galilei

Topics: Anything Cannot Discover Help Only People Teach Them Themselves We Cannot Within

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

~Galileo Galilei

Topics: Discover Discovered Easy Once Point Them Truths Understand

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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

~Galileo Galilei

Topics: Bible Go Heaven Heavens Shows Way

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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.

~Galileo Galilei

Topics: Around Bunch Dependent Else Grapes Had Nothing Planets Revolving Ripen Still Sun Those Universe

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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

~Galileo Galilei

Topics: Him Ignorant Learn Man Met Never Something

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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

~Galileo Galilei

Topics: Authority Humble Individual Questions Reasoning Science Single Single Individual Thousand Worth

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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

~Galileo Galilei

Topics: Clusters Else Mass Milky Way Nothing Planted Stars Together Way

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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

~Galileo Galilei

Topics: Make Measurable Measure

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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

~Galileo Galilei

Topics: Advice Again Beginning Follow Mathematics Plato Start Studies Were Would

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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

~Galileo Galilei

Topics: Believe Harmful Heresy Make Proved Souls Surely

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Scientist

Born: February 15th, 1564

Died: January 8th, 1642

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