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
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.
Taylor Wilson -
The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
Garry Winogrand -
There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
Albert Benjamin Simpson -
If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it.
Oscar Wilde -
Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.
Napoleon Hill -
When we're born. . . All of us. . . Are free. People who reject that, no matter how strong they are. . . Don't matter.
Hajime Isayama
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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.
Kristen Stewart -
It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.
Chogyam Trungpa -
I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.
Jack Roy -
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 -
Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.
Norman Vincent Peale -
It's very interesting to see what the security cameras can do and how long of a range they have.
F. Thomson Leighton
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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
Plato -
A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises.
Euripides -
Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one man’s solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude
Paul Auster -
The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual; and that the higher interests involved in the life of the whole must here set the limits and lay down the duties of the interests of the individual.
Adolf Hitler -
What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell the story of American history. It takes months and years of research. I can't even tell you how laborious that is. You have to be somebody who has a lot of free time, like a professor who can take tenure or someone with a great deal of leisure.
Henry Louis Gates -
Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself. There are wise physicists, but wisdom is not physical; there are wise physicians, but wisdom is not medical.
George Sarton
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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.
Galileo Galilei