Galileo Galilei Quotes

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.

To love beauty is to see light.

A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.

The Truth, sometimes not sought for, comes forth to the light.

I don't know if I believe in art. I certainly believe in light.

I think there is beauty in everything.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.

We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.

All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.

My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous.

If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life.

I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder.

It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.

Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.

The beauty that is there is also available for me, too. But I see a deeper beauty that isn't so readily available to others.... I don't see how studying a flower ever detracts from its beauty. It only adds