In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
GALILEO GALILEIMathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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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 vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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See now the power of truth.
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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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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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