Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
GALILEO GALILEISee now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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