Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... 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 ... without whos
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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 whim of others When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state. On the margin of his own copy of Dialogue on the Great World Systems.
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But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant, either in time or place And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man.
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