Language Quote by Galileo Galilei

“To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.” quote by Galileo Galilei — Download Open image

“To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.”

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“(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.”

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In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because…

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Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons…

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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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And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat…

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Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what they are…

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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to…

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What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed the power to do nothing whatever for us. Indeed, we should accept misfortune not only in thanks, but in infinite gratitude to Providence, which by such means detaches us from an excessive love for Earthly things…

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I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself at any time by means of experiment. Witnesses are examined in doutbful matters which are past and transient, not in those which are actual and present. A judge must seek by means of witnesses to determine…

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