Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
GALILEO GALILEIWe see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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 have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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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 Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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