That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
GALILEO GALILEINature is written in mathematical language.
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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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 vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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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 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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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.
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