Galileo Galilei Quotes

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.

Galileo Galilei

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• The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  

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• I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.

  

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• Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

  

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• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

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• I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.

  

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• There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.

  

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• Every morning I wake up and thank God.

  

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• I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

  

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• I'm often loose with my tongue. I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American or Communist, but I meant no harm by it.

  

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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.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • God
  • Amazed
  • Infinitely