Galileo Galilei Quotes

I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.

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• For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear Weapons

• If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Car
  • London
  • Bank

• The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Bird
  • Wings

• Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Car

• Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Power
  • Imagination
  • Innovation

• I love having the support of my caucus. We have a good working relationship.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Good
  • Love
  • Support

• I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don't remember when I wasn't playing piano. My second grade talent show was the first time I performed my own thing. I dressed up as Dracula and played a song called 'Monster Rock' that I wrote. And I won.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class – my class had 29 men and 6 women – those men were all very used to working with women.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Men
  • Women
  • Me

• I just try to direct in a way that interests me. And, hopefully, other people will find it compelling.

  

  Lonny Price
  • People

• Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Faith
  • Inborn

• Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been so widely and recklessly applied.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Hope
  • Minds
  • Posterity

• And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later years, and tell of happening that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills.

  

  Lord Dunsany
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Energy
  • Health
  • Planet

• Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • History
  • Destiny

• Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Perfect

• A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Say
  • Saying

• They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We’re fighting.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Fighting

• We came here with a plan: We're not going to let this game get by us.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Game
  • Plan

• I have way too much going on, as usual, but fortunately it's all good stuff. I'm not complaining.

  

  Brad Listi
  • Stuff
  • Complaining

• Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You keep your craft honed, you acquire the discipline to finish things. You turn into a self-taskmaster.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Discipline

• Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Action
  • Novel
  • Cliche

• The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom concealed vital information about the risks to human health posed by radiation. Dr. Alice Stewart, an audacious and insightful medical researcher, was one of the first experts to alert the world to the dangers of low-level radiation.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • World
  • Age
  • Risk

• Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.

  

  William Pickens
  • Reason
  • Prejudice
  • Inferiority

• I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Novel
  • Surprising