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Showing results 1 to 8 of 8 total quotations found.

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

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.: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
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Results from Classic Quotes:

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
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.: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642), The Assayer
Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)

Results from Contributed Quotations:

What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold 'precious,' and earth and soil 'base'? People who do this ought to remember that if there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who would not spend a bushel of diamonds and rubies and a cartload of gold just to have enough earth to plant a jasmine in a little pot, or to sow an orange seed and watch it sprout, grow, and produce its handsome leaves, its fragrant flowers, and fine fruit. It is scarcity and plenty that make the vulgar take things to be precious or worthless; they call a diamond very beautiful because it is like pure water, and then would not exchange one for ten barrels of water.: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)

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