We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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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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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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