Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
GALILEO GALILEIIn the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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 deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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 nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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