# Quote — Kim Stanley Robinson, Galileo's Dream

> You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson or an equation.

- Author: [Kim Stanley Robinson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson.md)
- Book: [Galileo's Dream](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/galileos-dream.md)
- Page: 513
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson#Galileo's_Dream_(2009)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/galileos-dream/you-could-never

## More from this book

> One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

p. 295 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/galileos-dream/one-of-the.md)

> The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.

p. 354 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/galileos-dream/the-sky-itself.md)

> Yes. God makes the world using mathematics, and he has given us minds that can see it. We can discover the laws He used! It is a most beautiful thing to witness and understand! It's prayer. It's more than prayer, it's a sacrament, a kind of communion. An apprehension—an epiphany—it's seeing God, while still in this body and in this world! How blessed we are, to be able to experience God like that! Who would not devote their time to understanding more, to seeing deeper in God's manner of thinking about these things?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/galileos-dream/yes-god-makes.md)