If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEIIn my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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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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Nonetheless, it moves.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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