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Galileo Galilei

Italian polymath

1564–1642

6 quotes, most often on Science and God. Part of the Scientists collection.

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
- God
- Science
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), Salviati
- Beauty
- Science
My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope?
Letter to Johannes Kepler (1610), as quoted in The Crime of Galileo (1955) by Giorgio De Santillana
- Clever Jabs
- Science

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