Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
GALILEO GALILEIThat sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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See now the power of truth.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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