Galileo Galilei

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

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

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(44 votes)   By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

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(43 votes)   I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

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(41 votes)   I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

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(36 votes)   Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

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(36 votes)   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.

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

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(35 votes)   Doubt is the father of invention.

Galileo Galilei
1564-1642, Italian Astronomer, Mathematician

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(21 votes)   Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

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

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(19 votes)   Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

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(19 votes)   You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.

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

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(18 votes)   It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

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