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One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures.

Galileo Galilei

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Galileo Galilei
Age: 77 †
Born: 1564
Born: February 15
Died: 1642
Died: January 8
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