Galileo Galilei Quotes

To excite in us tastes, odors, and sounds I believe that nothing is required in external bodies except shapes, numbers, and slow or rapid movements. ... if ears, tongues, and noses were removed, shapes and numbers and motions would remain, but not odors or tastes or sounds.

Galileo Galilei

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• In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

  

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• I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.

  

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• I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.

  

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• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  

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• Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.

  

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• Even among those who I would not count as 'friends,' I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do.

  

  Aaron Swartz
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• High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.

  

  Walter O'Brien
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• The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Women
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• The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Different
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• I would say our sound is soul pop.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
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• The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.

  

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• Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.

  

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• I can't avoid the interest in the fact that I'm an injured female soldier.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Interest
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  • Fact

• It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

  

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• Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.

  

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  • People
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• It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.

  

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• The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

  

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• Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth.

  

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• I'm an optimist. I have always been, and I will continue to be. So I believe there's always a possibility of transforming or changing or doing something different.

  

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  • Believe
  • Different
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• I think that anybody can go home, put the record on, and listen to it note for note, but there's very little entertainment value in that, I believe. When you give people something visually entertaining to watch along with presenting the music, I feel it makes it a lot more interesting.

  

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• To excite in us tastes, odors, and sounds I believe that nothing is required in external bodies except shapes, numbers, and slow or rapid movements. ... if ears, tongues, and noses were removed, shapes and numbers and motions would remain, but not odors or tastes or sounds.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • I Believe
  • Sounds
  • Shapes