That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy 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.
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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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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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