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• 20 May 08
  

  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei

  [The universe] cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which means it is humanly impossible to comprehend a single word.
  Opere Il Saggiatore p. 171.

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  • [The universe] cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which means it is humanly impossible to comprehend a single word.
     Opere Il Saggiatore p. 171.
  • To excite in us tastes, odors, and sounds I believe that nothing is required in external bodies except shapes, numbers, and slow or rapid movements. ... if ears, tongues, and noses were removed, shapes and numbers and motions would remain, but not odors or tastes or sounds.

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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2008-05-20
  The digital nature of knowledge starts with Galileo

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