“What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.”

— Galileo Galilei

"Matteo" in Concerning the New Star (1606)
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Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer 1564–1642

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“What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.”

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