Nature is written in mathematical language.
GALILEO GALILEITo be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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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 am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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