Galileo Galilei Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.

  Galileo Galilei

  Philosophy, Lying, Book

  "The Assayer". Book by Galileo Galilei, 1623.

• Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.

  Galileo Galilei

  Philosophy, Book, Mean

• The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

  Galileo Galilei

  Book, Math, Language

  "How the Mind Works". Book by Steven Pinker (p. 359), 1997.

• The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens.

  Galileo Galilei

  Book, Greatness, Shining

• Nature's great book is written in mathematics.

  Galileo Galilei

  Book, Math, Science

• I truly believe the book of philosophy to be that which stands perpetually open before our eyes, though since it is written in characters different from those of our alphabet it cannot be read by everyone.

  Galileo Galilei

  Philosophy, Believe, Book

• Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.

  Galileo Galilei

  Book, Heaven, Going To Heaven

• 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.

  Galileo Galilei

  Education, Book, Character

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