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.
GALILEO GALILEIIt is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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Nonetheless, it moves.
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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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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