That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
GALILEO GALILEIGod is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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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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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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 increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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See now the power of truth.
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