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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
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I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.
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If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it.
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Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.
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When we're born. . . All of us. . . Are free. People who reject that, no matter how strong they are. . . Don't matter.
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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.
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It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.
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I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.
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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.
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Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.
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It's very interesting to see what the security cameras can do and how long of a range they have.
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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
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Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!
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She will be a good chancellor and will have me ... by her side all the way.
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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.
