The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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Philosophy 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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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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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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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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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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