Quote #19
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
More from Galileo Galilei
- All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
- Eppur si muove
- I cannot without great wonder, nay more, disbelief, hear it being attributed to natural bodies as a great honor and perfection that they ar…
- I never met a man so unknowledgeable, I could not learn something from him.
- See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of…
- 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.
- Allan-Olney, Mary. The private Life of Galileo: Compiled primarily from his correspondence and that of his eldest daughter, Sister Maria Ce…
- In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.