Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
GALILEO GALILEI
The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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