Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
GALILEO GALILEIIn the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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See now the power of truth.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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