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

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

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

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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

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

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

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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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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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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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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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