Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Philosophy is written in that great book which lies before our gaze ... I mean the universe ... but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in the mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without the help of which it is impossible to conceive a single word of it, and without which, one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.
Le Opera di Galileo Galilei by G. Barbera, Florence, 1890 4, p. 171 and cited by J. Needham ‘Mathematics and Science in China and the West’ in Sociology of Science edited by B. Barnes p. 32 (Penguin, 1972).
Philosophy is written in that great book which lies before our gaze ... I mean the universe ... but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in the mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without the help of which it is impossible to conceive a single word of it, and without which, one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.
Le Opera di Galileo Galilei by G. Barbera, Florence, 1890 4, p. 171 and cited by J. Needham ‘Mathematics and Science in China and the West’ in Sociology of Science edited by B. Barnes p. 32 (Penguin, 1972).
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