Galileo Galilei Quotes About Mathematics
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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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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 them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state.
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The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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.
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Nature's great book is written in mathematics.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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And believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with the mathematical sciences, which proceed very cautiously and admit nothing as established until it has been rigorously demonstrated.
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Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
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What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.
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The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
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