I, Galileo, Son Of The Late Vicenzo

You Cannot Teach A Person Something He Does Not Already Know, You Can Only Bring What He Does Know To His Awareness.

It Has Always Seemed To Me Extreme Presumptuousness On The Part Of Those Who Want To Make Human Ability The Measure Of What Nature Can And Knows How To Do, Since, When One Comes Down To It, There Is Not One Effect In Nature, No Matter How Small, That Even The Most Speculative Minds Can Fully Understand.

Wine Is Sunlight, Held Together By Water.

Well, Since Paradoxes Are At Hand, Let Us See How It Might Be Demonstrated That In A Finite Continuous Extension It Is Not Impossible For Infinitely Many Voids To Be Found.

But Of All Other Stupendous Inventions, What Sublimity Of Mind Must Have Been His Who Conceived How To Communicate His Most Secret Thoughts To Any Other Person, Though Very Far Distant Either In Time Or Place? And With No Greater Difficulty Than The Various Arrangement Of Two Dozen Little Signs Upon Paper? Let This Be The Seal Of All The Admirable Inventions Of Man.