Galileo Galilei Quotes

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself. - Galileo Galilei

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in. - Galileo Galilei

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers. - Galileo Galilei

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

To excite in us tastes, odors, and sounds I believe that nothing is required in external bodies except shapes, numbers, and slow or rapid movements. ... if ears, tongues, and noses were removed, shapes and numbers and motions would remain, but not od. - Galileo Galilei

To command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them not to see what they do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find what they do not discover. - Galileo Galilei

The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions [than we can ever know]. But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty. - Galileo Galilei

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