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> [For my part I consider the earth very noble and admirable precisely because of the diverse alterations, changes, generations, etc. that occur…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galileo-galilei/for-my-part-i-consider-the-earth-very-noble-and-admirable-precisely/)

[Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galileo-galilei/)

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> [That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. ...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galileo-galilei/that-sculpture-is-more-admirable-than-painting-for-the-reason-that-it/)

[Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galileo-galilei/)

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> [But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galileo-galilei/but-of-all-other-stupendous-inventions-what-sublimity-of-mind-must/)

[Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galileo-galilei/)

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## Other authors on Admirable

## More by Galileo Galilei

> [Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galileo-galilei/surely-god-could-have-caused-birds-to-fly-with-their-bones-made-of/)

[Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galileo-galilei/)

> [If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galileo-galilei/if-experiments-are-performed-thousands-of-times-at-all-seasons-and-in/)

[Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galileo-galilei/)

> [“(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galileo-galilei/t-he-increase-of-known-truths-stimulates-the-investigation/)

[Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galileo-galilei/)

> [In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galileo-galilei/in-the-long-run-my-observations-have-convinced-me-that-some-men/)

[Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galileo-galilei/)

> [Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galileo-galilei/nature-is-inexorable-and-immutable-she-never-transgresses-the-laws/)

[Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galileo-galilei/)

> [Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galileo-galilei/holy-writ-was-intended-to-teach-men-how-to-go-to-heaven-not-how-the/)

[Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galileo-galilei/)

> [And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galileo-galilei/and-who-can-doubt-that-it-will-lead-to-the-worst-disorders-when-minds/)

[Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galileo-galilei/)

> [ Among the great men who have philosophized about \[the action of the tides\], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galileo-galilei/among-the-great-men-who-have-philosophized-about-the-action-of-the/)

[Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galileo-galilei/)

> [Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galileo-galilei/infinities-and-indivisibles-transcend-our-finite-understanding-the/)

[Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galileo-galilei/)

> [I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galileo-galilei/i-do-not-feel-obliged-to-believe-that-the-same-god-who-has-endowed-us/)

[Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galileo-galilei/)

> [What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galileo-galilei/what-ever-the-course-of-our-lives-we-should-recieve-them-as-the/)

[Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galileo-galilei/)

> [I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galileo-galilei/i-cannot-but-be-astonished-that-sarsi-should-persist-in-trying-to/)

[Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galileo-galilei/)

> [I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: The intention of the Holy Spirit is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galileo-galilei/i-would-say-here-something-that-was-heard-from-an-ecclesiastic-of-the/)

[Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galileo-galilei/)

> [Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own eyes again…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galileo-galilei/some-merely-to-contradict-what-i-had-said-did-not-scruple-to-cast/)

[Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galileo-galilei/)

> [By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galileo-galilei/by-denying-scientific-principles-one-may-maintain-any-paradox/)

[Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galileo-galilei/)

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