That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
GALILEO GALILEIWe must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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 Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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 Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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