Galileo Galilei Quotes

The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself to him with the annual salary of one thousand florins, and with the title of Philosopher and Principal Mathematicial to His Highness; without the duties of office to perform, but with the most complete leisure; so that I can complete my Treatises.

Galileo Galilei

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• My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. It's very abundant. The fuels are everywhere. There are problems with fusion.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Energy
  • Problems
  • Clean

• The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Photography
  • Stills
  • Photographer

• There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
  • Children

• I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Time
  • Baby
  • Married

• If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Have
  • Believed
  • Seen

• Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Fear
  • Faith
  • Exist

• When we're born. . . All of us. . . Are free. People who reject that, no matter how strong they are. . . Don't matter.

  

  Hajime Isayama
  • People
  • Free
  • Strong

• It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Time
  • Long
  • Girl

• It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Family
  • Except
  • Enlightened

• I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.

  

  Jack Roy
  • General
  • Cigarette
  • Surgeon

• I've never gotten anything out of his movies. They have felt constructed, faux intellectual and completely dead. Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. Godard is a fucking bore. He's made his films for the critics. One of the movies, Masculin, feminin, was shot here in Sweden. It was mindnumbingly boring.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Movies
  • Boring

• Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Life
  • Tears
  • Laughter

• It's very interesting to see what the security cameras can do and how long of a range they have.

  

  F. Thomson Leighton
  • Security
  • Cameras
  • Range

• Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

  

  Plato
  • Children
  • Train
  • Direct

• The words 'theory' and 'practice' are of Greek origin; they carry our thoughts back to the ancient philosophers by whom they were contrived, and by whom they were also contrasted and placed in opposition, as denoting two mutually conflicting and mutually inconsistent ideas. ... [this fallacy] based on a double system of natural laws retarded for centuries the development of physical science, notably mechanics.

  

  William John Macquorn Rankine
  • Science
  • Natural
  • Development

• Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only the front and back surfaces. In this intuitively easy analysis, the 'front surface' and 'back surface' arrows are mathematical constructions that give us the right answer, whereas .... a more accurate representation of what is really going on: partial reflection is the scattering of light by electrons inside the glass.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Easy
  • Construction
  • Representation

• The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Mankind
  • Philosopher
  • Occupation

• The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself to him with the annual salary of one thousand florins, and with the title of Philosopher and Principal Mathematicial to His Highness; without the duties of office to perform, but with the most complete leisure; so that I can complete my Treatises.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Philosopher
  • Mathematical
  • Leisure