Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of 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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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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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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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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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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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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The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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