If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEIIn time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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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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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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See now the power of truth.
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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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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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