Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
GALILEO GALILEIWe must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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 earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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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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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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