Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
GALILEO GALILEII entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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See now the power of truth.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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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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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.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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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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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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