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)

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

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