Galileo Galilei
Italian · 1564–1642
Astronomer, physicist, and polymath, often called the father of modern science for his pioneering use of observation and experiment.
Wikipedia ↗“The universe cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures.”
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“Eppur si muove.”
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“And yet it moves.”
“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”
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“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
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“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
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