Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
GALILEO GALILEILong experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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