We Must Learn the Language of Nature
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our gaze—I mean the universe—but we cannot understand 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.
Galileo Galilei, Dialogo ... Dove ... Si Discorre Sopra i Due Massimi Sistemi Del Mondo. [Eng.tr.] (1953)
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It is mathematical, geometrical, and we must learn its symbols to understand it.
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