17 January 1991 January 16, 2014 Author: Staff Operation Desert Storm begins. Famous Words of Inspiration..."Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the Universe - which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it." Galileo Galilei — Click here for more from Galileo Galilei Related posts: 17 January 1991 29 January 1991 1 November 1951 19 September 1991 12 November 1991 21 May 1991 24 August 1991 19 September 1991 29 September 1991 7 November 1991 Categories: History Tags: 17 January, 1991