Galileo Galilei Quotes About Mathematics

Quotes about: Mathematics

• Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

  Galileo Galilei

  Learning, Science, Discovery

• The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.

  Galileo Galilei

  Hands, Law, Language

• 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.

  Galileo Galilei

  Math, People, Judging

• To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.

  Galileo Galilei

  Language, Mathematics, Written

• 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.

• Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

  Galileo Galilei

  Math, Statistics, Metrics

• 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.

  Galileo Galilei

  Education, Plato, Math

  "The Essential Galileo".

• Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

  Galileo Galilei

  Knowledge, Science, Keys

  Attributed to Galileo Galilei in "Building Fluency Through Practice and Performance" by Timothy Rasinski and Lorraine Griffith (p. 64), 2008.

• Nature is written in mathematical language.

  Galileo Galilei

  Language, Mathematics, Mathematical

  Galileo Galilei (1997). “Galileo on the World Systems: A New Abridged Translation and Guide”, p.350, Univ of California Press

• Nature's great book is written in mathematics.

  Galileo Galilei

  Book, Math, Science

• 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.

  Galileo Galilei

  Math, Circles, Law

• We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

  Galileo Galilei

  Education, Squares, Numbers

  Galileo Galilei (2010). “Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences”, p.32, Cosimo, Inc.

• 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.

  Galileo Galilei

  Philosophy, Sky, Fields

• 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

• 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

  Language, Speak, Mathematics

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