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"If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics."
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"When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there."
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"Go the extra mile to do the undone, but work within your limits, and in doing so also, don't be a coward to question things within your limit that are not all that right, and don't be too arrogant or proud or be filled with excessive knowledge to do things which might though be within your limit, yet out of limit, for you must live and leave nothing, but distinctive and lasting footprints!"
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"Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old."
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"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
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"The first rule when you are in a hole is to ask for a hand out!"
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"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."
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"O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!"
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"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."
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"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."
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"Never let your education interfere with your learning."
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"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."
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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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"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations."
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"Where the senses fail us, reason must step in."
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"I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
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"The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters."
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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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"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."
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"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
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"It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved."
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