Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
GALILEO GALILEIIf I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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