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

Galileo Galilei

The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Science Understand Vain
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
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Believe Harm Prove Science Soul
Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Earth Move Round Science Sun
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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Accomodation Attribute Essence Name Science
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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Acting Human Mind Nature Remember
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Discover Help People Teaching
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
Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Alcohol Sunlight Togetherness Water Wine
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
GALILEO GALILEI

Book Gaze Open Philosophy Stand Writing
The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
GALILEO GALILEI

Consideration Fools Reason Vanity
I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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God Infinite Marvelous Please Thanful
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Doctrine God Nature Reveal Work
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Experience Mankind Matter Regard Requirement Status Teaching
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
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Failure One Liner Reason Science Sense Step

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

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