The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEIThe laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEIThe vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEIWe must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
GALILEO GALILEIThe 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.
GALILEO GALILEIWe see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
GALILEO GALILEIWho would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
GALILEO GALILEIWine is sunlight, held together by water.
GALILEO GALILEIThe earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy 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.
GALILEO GALILEINature is written in mathematical language.
GALILEO GALILEIEarth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
GALILEO GALILEIYou may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
GALILEO GALILEIKnowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
GALILEO GALILEINature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
GALILEO GALILEIThere are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
GALILEO GALILEII entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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