If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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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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