- Visit Dr. Mardy's iWise Blog | World Refugee Day Quotes

View.

View.

Tweet : Yes | No

View.

Tweet : Yes | No

CATEGORIES

play video

Quote

Follow

Galileo Galilei : Philosophy is written in this grand book— I mean the universe— which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth (1623) # Love # Books - Reading # Character

Tweet

gift

Map

email

download

bookmark

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Galileo Galilei quote-Philosophy is written in this grand book— I mean the universe— which stands...

Wisdom feed seeded by this quote

15 tweets

Galileo Galilei : " Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. " # Love # Books - Reading # Character

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download · · Bookmark · Source

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Be First To

Roland Barthes : " All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology. " # Love # Books - Reading # Character

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download · · Bookmark · Source

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Be First To

Erich Fromm : " Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. " # Love # Books - Reading # Character

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download · · Bookmark · Source

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Be First To

Albert Einstein : " The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images. " # Love # Books - Reading # Character

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download · · Bookmark · Source

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Be First To

Robert G Ingersoll : " Liberty of thought, this liberty of expression, is of more value than any other thing beneath the stars. Of more value than any religion, of more value than any government, of more value than all the constitutions that man has written and all the laws that he has passed, is this liberty — the absolute liberty of the human mind. Take away that word from language, and all other words become meaningless sounds, and there is then no reason for a man being and living upon the earth. " # Love # Books - Reading # Character

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download · · Bookmark · Source

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Be First To

Niels Bohr : " What is it that we humans depend on? We depend on our words... Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the scope of our description, but in such a way that our messages do not thereby lose their objective or unambiguous character ... We are suspended in language in such a way that we cannot say what is up and what is down. The word "reality" is also a word, a word which we must learn to use correctly. " # Love # Books - Reading # Character

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download · · Bookmark · Source

Powerpoint Wallpaper

1 tweets

Albert Einstein : " The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. " # Love # Books - Reading # Character

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download · · Bookmark · Source

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Be First To

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : " No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead. " # Love # Books - Reading # Character

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download · · Bookmark · Source

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Be First To

Tim Bedore : " Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids. " # Love # Books - Reading # Character

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download · · Bookmark · Source

Powerpoint Wallpaper

4 tweets

Wilbur Wright : " My brother and I became seriously interested in the problem of human flight in 1899 ... We knew that men had by common consent adopted human flight as the standard of impossibility. When a man said, “It can’t be done; a man might as well try to fly,” he was understood as expressing the final limit of impossibility. Our own growing belief that man might nevertheless learn to fly was based on the idea that while thousands of the most dissimilar body structures, such as insects, fish, reptiles, birds and mammals, were flying every day at pleasure, it was reasonable to suppose that man might also fly... We accordingly decided to write to the Smithsonian Institution and inquire for the best books relating to the subject.... Contrary to our previous impression, we found that men of the very highest standing in the profession of science and invention had attempted to solve the problem... But one by one, they had been compelled to confess themselves beaten, and had discontinued their efforts. In studying their failures we found many points of interest to us. At that time there was no flying art in the proper sense of the word, but only a flying problem. Thousands of men had thought about flying machines and a few had even built machines which they called flying machines, but these were guilty of almost everything except flying. Thousands of pages had been written on the so-called science of flying, but for the most part the ideas set forth, like the designs for machines, were mere speculations and probably ninety per cent was false. Consequently those who tried to study the science of aerodynamics knew not what to believe and what not to believe. Things which seemed reasonable were often found to be untrue, and things which seemed unreasonable were sometimes true. Under this condition of affairs students were accustomed to pay little attention to things that they had not personally tested. " # Love # Books - Reading # Character

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download · · Bookmark · Source

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Galileo Galilei Wisdom feed

394 tweets

Galileo Galilei: " All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them." # Truth

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download . · Bookmark · Source ·

Powerpoint Wallpaper

309 tweets

Galileo Galilei: " You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself." # Teachers and Teaching

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download . · Bookmark · Source ·

Powerpoint Wallpaper

52 tweets

Galileo Galilei: " I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." # Forgiveness # God # Reason

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download . · Bookmark · Source ·

Powerpoint Wallpaper

38 tweets

Galileo Galilei: " Doubt is the father of invention." # Doubt

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download . · Bookmark · Source ·

Powerpoint Wallpaper

26 tweets

Galileo Galilei: " Wine is "light held together by moisture."" # Alcohol and Alcoholism

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download . · Bookmark · Source ·

Powerpoint Wallpaper

13 tweets

Galileo Galilei: " I cannot without great wonder, nay more, disbelief, hear it being attributed to natural bodies as a great honor and perfection that they are impassable, immutable, inalterable, etc.: as conversely, I hear it esteemed a great imperfection to be alterable, generable, and mutable. It is my opinion that the earth is very noble and admirable by reason of the many and different alterations, mutations, and generations which incessantly occur in it. And if, without being subject to any alteration, it had been one great heap of sand, or a mass of jade, or if, since the time of the deluge, the waters freezing which covered it, it had continued an immense globe of crystal, wherein nothing had ever grown, altered, or changed, I should have esteemed it a wretched lump of no benefit to the Universe, a mass of idleness, and in a word superfluous, exactly as if it had never been in Nature. The difference for me would be the same as between a living and a dead creature. I say the same concerning the Moon, Jupiter, and all the other globes of the Universe. The more I delve into the consideration of the vanity of popular discourses, the more empty and simple I find them. What greater folly can be imagined than to call gems, silver, and gold noble, and earth and dirt base? For do not these persons consider that if there were as great a scarcity of earth as there is of jewels and precious metals, there would be no king who would not gladly give a heap of diamonds and rubies and many ingots of gold to purchase only so much earth as would suffice to plant a jessamine in a little pot or to set a tangerine in it, that he might see it sprout, grow up, and bring forth such goodly leaves, fragrant flowers, and delicate fruit? It is scarcity and plenty that makes things esteemed and despised by the vulgar, who will say that there is a most beautiful diamond, for it resembles a clear water, and yet would not part from it for ten tons of water. These men who so extol incorruptibility, inalterability, and so on, speak thus, I believe, out of the great desire they have to live long and for fear of death, not considering that, if men had been immortal, they would not have come into the world. These people deserve to meet with a Medusa's head that would transform them into statues of diamond and jade, that so they might become more perfect than they are." # Imagination # Love # Death and Dying

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download . · Bookmark · Source ·

Powerpoint Wallpaper

12 tweets

Galileo Galilei: " It now remains that we find the amount of time of descent through the channel. This we shall obtain from the marvelous property of the pendulum, which is that it makes all its vibrations, large or small, in equal times. This requires, once and for all, that two or three or four patient and curious friends, having noted a fixed star that stands against some fixed marker, taking a pendulum of any length, shall go counting its vibrations during the whole time of return of the fixed star to its original point, and this will be the number of vibrations in 24 hours. From the number of these we can find the number of vibrations of any other pendulums, longer or shorter, at will, so that if for example those counted by us in 24 hours were 234,567, then taking another shorter pendulum with which one counts 800 vibrations while another counts 150 of the longer pendulum, we already have, by the golden rule, the number of vibrations for the whole time of 24 hours; and if we want to know the time of descent through the channel, we can easily find not only the minutes, seconds, and sixtieths of seconds, but beyond that as we please. It is true that we can pass a more exact measure by having observed the flow of water through a thin passage, for by collecting this and having weighed what passes in one minute, for example, then by weighing what passes in the time of descent through the channel we can find the most exact measure and quantity of this time, especially by making use of a balance so precise as to weigh one sixtieth of a grain." # Age and Aging # Friends and Friendship # Life and Living

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download . · Bookmark · Source ·

Powerpoint Wallpaper

12 tweets

Galileo Galilei: " (speaking as Salviati)...In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads. Such arguments in support of their fixed idea as they hit upon themselves or hear set forth by others, no matter how simple and stupid these may be, gain their instant acceptance and applause. On the other hand whatever is brought forward against it, however ingenious and conclusive, they receive with disdain or with hot rage--if indeed it does not make them ill. Beside themselves with passion, some of them would not be backward even about scheming to suppress and silence their adversaries. (translated by Stillman Drake, 2001 Modern Library Paperback Edition, p. 322)." # Life and Living # Love # Action

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download . · Bookmark · Source ·

Powerpoint Wallpaper

11 tweets

Galileo Galilei: " Whence do you have it that the terrestrial globe is so heavy? For my part, either I do not know what heaviness is, or the terrestrial globe is neither heavy nor light, as likewise all other globes of the universe. Heaviness to me (and I believe to Nature) is that innate tendency by which a body resists being moved from its natural place and by which, when forcibly removed therefrom, it spontaneously returns there. Thus a bucketful of water raised on high and set free, returns to the sea; but who will say that the same water remains heavy in the sea, when being set free there, does not move?" # Action # Freedom # Love

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download . · Bookmark · Source ·

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Be First To

Galileo Galilei: " It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve" # Nature # Love # Ability

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download . · Bookmark · Source ·

Powerpoint Wallpaper