If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEIWe cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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See now the power of truth.
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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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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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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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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