That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
GALILEO GALILEIScience proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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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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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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