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Galileo Galilei1564–1642

Philosophy is written in this grand book⁠—I mean the Universe⁠—which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.

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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.
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