Galileo Galilei Quotes

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

Galileo Galilei

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• You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.

  

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• I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.

  

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• I just don't think men fancy me.

  

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• I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.

  

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• Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.

  

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• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

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• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

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• Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.

  

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• For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.

  

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• Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

  

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• I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.

  

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• I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

  

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• We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.

  

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• We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

  

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• Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

  

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• Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

  

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• I've been to Gettysburg probably more than half a dozen times.

  

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• All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute.

  

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• I can't believe people think they need permission to drive. Or permission to do anything.

  

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• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • God
  • Believe
  • Obliged