“Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it if we do not… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets,… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.” — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what they are… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
