Lost Again (Uh, Make That Still)

Philosophy is written in that great book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.  But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns the language and can decipher the letters of which it is composed.  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 strays as in a darkened maze.
—    Galileo Galilei
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