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is inexplicable. She is relentless and unchangeable and indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. Galileo Galilei

is an empirical endeavor. Math is not enough. Somebody must look!.

Galileo defined science as an empirical endeavor. Math is not enough. Somebody must look,.

is all of a piece. If ears tongues and noses were removed from the world, then odors tastes and sounds would be removed as well.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) states in 'The Assayer' (1623), if ears tongues and noses were removed from the world, then odors tastes and sounds would be removed as well.

is not divided objectively in one or another by the matter that fills it. It has no natural articulations.

The condensation of temporal ideas into clock time has had cognitive consequences, most notably the atrophy of the ability to determine time from environmental cues. As Bergson said about the scientific approach to time, 'For a Kepler, or a Galileo, . . . time is not divided objectively in one or another by the matter that fills it. It has no natural articulations' (2005 [1011], 360). Basically, the sophisticated knowledge of a time-scape signaled by visual cues and sonic cues diminished in favor of looking at a clock.

is the rhythm of the impetus of gravitation.

For Galileo, TIME is the rhythm of the impetus of gravitation, and for him temporal sequences have purely numerical character, so that by means of the force diagrams he reduces gravitation to the geometry of space, which was later followed by Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity. Namely, in his experiments with gravitation, Galileo noticed that during the free fall of bodies, the rate of the path increase behaves as the odd numbers (1, 3, 5. . . ), in case of equal successive TIME intervals. Contrary to Archimedes who said that the concept of TIME is scientifically unnecessary and that it should be expelled from physics, in his law of free fall Galileo did the contrary. He replaced force by TIME, thus continuing Kepler's idea, who in his laws of celestial mechanics, which have not been corrected to the present day, derived all his formulas in a Pythagorean way, that is, solely by spheres of TIME.

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