If I Were To Awaken After Having

Galileo Was No Idiot. Only An Idiot Could Believe That Science Requires Martyrdom - That May Be Necessary In Religion, But In Time A Scientific Result Will Establish Itself.

The Arithmetical Symbols Are Written Diagrams And The Geometrical Figures Are Graphic Formulas.

The Further A Mathematical Theory Is Developed, The More Harmoniously And Uniformly Does Its Construction Proceed, And Unsuspected Relations Are Disclosed Between Hitherto Separated Branches Of The Science.

The Tool Which Serves As Intermediary Between Theory And Practice, Between Thought And Observation, Is Mathematics; It Is Mathematics Which Builds The Linking Bridges And Gives The Ever More Reliable Forms.

I Have Tried To Avoid Long Numerical Computations, Thereby Following Riemann's Postulate That Proofs Should Be Given Through Ideas And Not Voluminous Computations.