Galileo Galilei Famous Quotes



"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

You cannot teach a man anything. you can only help him to find it for himself.

"It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve"

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

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


Galileo Galilei Quotations






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