That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
GALILEO GALILEIMathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
-
-
Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
GALILEO GALILEI -
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.
GALILEO GALILEI -
Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
GALILEO GALILEI -
The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
GALILEO GALILEI -
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.
GALILEO GALILEI -
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
GALILEO GALILEI -
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEI -
See now the power of truth.
GALILEO GALILEI -
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEI -
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
GALILEO GALILEI -
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
GALILEO GALILEI -
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEI -
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.
GALILEO GALILEI -
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.
GALILEO GALILEI -
Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
GALILEO GALILEI