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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See now the power of truth.
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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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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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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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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