If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEIThat sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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