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


Galileo

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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
GALILEO You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
GALILEO You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -Galileo.
GALILEO You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
GALILEO All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
GALILEO It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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GALILEO GALILEI By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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GALILEO GALILEI I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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GALILEO GALILEI Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magni...
GALILEO GALILEI The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.
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GALILEO GALILEI If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEI You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
GALILEO GALILEI All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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GALILEO GALILEI I have been in my bed for five weeks, oppressed with weakness and other infirmities from which my ag...
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GALILEO GALILEI You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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GALILEO GALILEI See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when...
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, JAMES RESTON, GALILEO, A LIFE, HARPERCOLLINS, NY, 1994, P 461.