That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
GALILEO GALILEIYou cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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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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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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