The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEIMathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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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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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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We 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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Nonetheless, it moves.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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