Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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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.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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