Galileo Galilei on Education
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Galileo Galilei, catalogued under education, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Galileo Galilei, entry #194100: "You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it within himself."
Attributed to Galileo Galilei, entry #103360: "I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree : "The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven …"
4 Quotes by Galileo Galilei on Education
"You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it within himself."
"I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree : "The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes."
"The Galileo Project at Rice University"
"I esteem myself happy to have as great an ally as you in my search for truth. I will read your work … all the more willingly because I have for many years been a partisan of the Copernican view because it reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypothesis. To refute the latter I have collected many proofs, but I do not publish them, because I am deterred by the fate of our teacher Copernicus who, although he had won immortal fame with a few, was ridiculed and condemned by countless people ."