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Galileo Galilei Quotes

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Famous Galileo Galilei Quotations

Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars; demonstrated that different weights descend at the same rate; perfected the refracting telescope that enabled him to make many discoveries (1564-1642)

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. »
You cannot teach a man anything. you can only help him to find it for himself. »
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new. »
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 »
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. »
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. »
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. »
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. »
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them. »

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