That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
GALILEO GALILEIThe vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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 language in which God has written the universe.
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