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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Galileo Galilei

Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Earth Move Round Science Sun
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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Action Change Hide Indifference Man Nature Reason Understand
Philosophy 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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Achievement Benefit Conception Dispute Philosophy Prove
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Science Understand Vain
What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Earth Imagination Science Stupidity
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Modest Statement Wise
Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Alcohol Sunlight Togetherness Water Wine
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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Book Eyes Language Philosophy Understand Universe Writing
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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Force Move Science
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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Descent Earth Motion Science
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Authority Humble Individual Reason Science Worth
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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God Language Law Mathematics Nature Writing
The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Greatness One Liner Self Love Wisdom
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Help Himself Man Teaching Wisdom
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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Darkness Earth exchange Gloom Illuminate Moon Night Receive
Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Absolute Holy Lie Scripture Truth

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

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