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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• I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.

  

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

  

  Edgar Degas
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  • Idea

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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  • Talk
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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
  • People
  • Work
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• High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.

  

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

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Women
  • Confidence
  • Kindness

• The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.

  

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

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Soul
  • Sound
  • Say

• 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.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Music
  • School

• 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.

  

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

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Interest
  • Soldier
  • 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.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Different
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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.

  

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

  

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

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
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• Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.

  

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• If things happen it's because God has prepared me. God has great things for us. If it's God's will that I be there, there I will be.

  

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  • Great
  • God

• If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • You
  • Freedom
  • Clever

• The world is going to change, whether we like it or not. We can participate in that change or we can be the victims of that change. In a way. Either we go in our stupidity ignorance, and arrogance, bring more destruction in a way, or we're forced to change.

  

  Hamid Drake
  • World
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• There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Different
  • Direction
  • Speed

• 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