Nature is written in mathematical language.
GALILEO GALILEIHoly Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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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 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 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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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