What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
GALILEO GALILEINature is written in mathematical language.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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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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See now the power of truth.
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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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