Galileo Galilei Quotes

E pur si muove. "Albeit It does move". (That's what Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.)

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• In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Practice
  • Difference
  • Theory

• We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Revolution
  • Theory
  • Blind

• Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Important
  • End
  • Theory

• Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Being
  • Evolution
  • Theory

• Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Communication
  • Theory
  • Philosophical

• Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.

  

  Flora Lewis
  • Small
  • Change
  • Theory

• You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Business
  • Run
  • Theory

• The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Single
  • Universe
  • Theory

• The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Theory
  • Fail
  • While

• I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Romantic
  • Theory
  • Bit

• I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabilities; I was completely by ear.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Reading

• All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Experience
  • Freedom
  • Theory

• I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Success
  • Feel
  • Theory

• The most beautiful fate of a physical theory is to point the way to the establishment of a more inclusive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Beautiful
  • Fate
  • Theory

• Fundamental ideas play the most essential role in forming a physical theory. Books on physics are full of complicated mathematical formulae. But thought and ideas, not formulae, are the beginning of every physical theory. The ideas must later take the mathematical form of a quantitative theory, to make possible the comparison with experiment.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Ideas
  • Thought
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• Then I would have felt sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Lord
  • Theory
  • Correct

• The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Theory
  • Technic

• I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em.

  

  Jack Warner
  • Theory
  • Relatives
  • Hire

• Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• Religion will disappear from men's consciousness when, finally, we have constructed a world of equals, without class distinctions, and with a sound of scientific conception of society and of life.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Society
  • Religion
  • Distinctions

• Musicians and artists are not... it's not like politicians or something where you can't really affect them. There's not like this separate caste system where it's like, "I'm the musician, you're the audience. Never the two shall meet." It was a case where it was like, "Hey, you know what? I'm on your level, man."

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Audience
  • Artists
  • Musicians

• E pur si muove. "Albeit It does move". (That's what Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.)

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Theory
  • Recant
  • Earth Orbits