November 27, 2022

Thought for Today

"Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the universe - which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth."

Galileo Galilei [1564-1642]

Il Saggiatore [1643]

The Asssayer in The Controversy on the Comets of 1618 [1960], 

translated by Stillman Darke and C.D. O'Malley.