Quote by Galileo Galilei
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when mi

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 will of others? – Galileo Galilei

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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. – Galileo Galilei

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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

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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. – Galileo Galilei

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You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same. – Daniel Knode

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. – G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

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The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself. – Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy

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