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Nature is written in mathematical language.

Galileo Galilei

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Galileo Galilei
Age: 77 †
Born: 1564
Born: February 15
Died: 1642
Died: January 8
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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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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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Nature's great book is written in mathematics.
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See now the power of truth.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.
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I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured.
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With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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It is necessary for the Bible, in order to be accommodated to the understanding of every man, to speak many things which appear to differ from the absolute truth so far as the bare meaning of the words is concerned.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be, but is uneven, rough, and full of cavities and prominences, being not unlike the face of the Earth, relieved by chains of mountains and deep valleys.
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