That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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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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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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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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