Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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