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Galileo Galilei

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Galileo Galilei Quotes

Total quotes: 2

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Galileo Galilei

Birthname

AKA: Galileo Galilei

Birthday: February 15, 1564

Birthplace: Pisa, Duchy of Florence

Educated At: University Of Pisa

Nationality: Grand Duchy Of Tuscany, Duchy Of Florence

Occupations: Astrologer, University Teacher, Physicist, Mathematician, Theoretical Physicist

Religion: Catholicism, Catolico

Total quotes: 2

“To apply oneself to great inventions, starting from the smallest beginnings, is no task for ordinary minds; to divine that wonderful arts lie hid behind trivial and childish things is a conception for superhuman talents.”

— Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican

Tagged: inventions, Talent

“If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.”

— Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican

Tagged: Astronomy, Night, Earth, Moon

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