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«I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think of the foremost philosophers of this University? In spite of my oft-repeated efforts and invitations, they have refused, wit»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
foremost, invitations, Kepler, mob, refused, repeated, the mob
«I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
abjure, abjured, Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholic churches, detest, detested, heresies, sect, unfeigned
«Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.»
«The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions [than we can ever know]. But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
propositions, regard to, with regard to
«We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.»
«The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this ... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite q»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
assigning, discuss, finite
«To excite in us tastes, odors, and sounds I believe that nothing is required in external bodies except shapes, numbers, and slow or rapid movements. ... if ears, tongues, and noses were removed, shapes and numbers and motions would remain, but not od»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
motions, Movements, odors, rapid, shapes, slow motion
«Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person of independent genius, [but he] became interested in the action of the moon on the water, and in other occult phenome»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Kepler, moon on, occult, philosophize, philosophized, philosophizes
«I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night»
«So far as I know, no one has yet pointed out that the distance travelled in equal intervals of time, by a body falling from rest, stand to one another in the same ratio as the odd number beginning with 1'.»
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