The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEIThe laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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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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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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The 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.
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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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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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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 increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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