Quote of Galileo Galilei - Philosophy is written in this grand...
Biography - Galileo Galilei:
Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher and mathematician.
Born: 1564 - Died: 1642
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: Italy
Born: 1564 - Died: 1642
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: Italy
Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.
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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Quotes about nature:
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Quotes about philosophy:
To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.
Quotes about the Universe:
The universe confounds me! I cannot imagine that such a ‘clock’ can exist without there being a Clockmaker.
Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom can dissolve everything, an atom can save everything
Quotes about science:
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
Quotes for: book
Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself. What better book can there be than the book of humanity?
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