They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction.
Interpretation
Knowledge enhances creativity and artistic expression rather than diminishing it.
In this quote, Galileo Galilei expresses the idea that as humanity uncovers more truths about the world, it fosters artistic endeavors and intellectual pursuits instead of hindering them. He suggests that understanding and truthfulness are the foundations upon which art and creativity flourish, promoting exploration and innovation rather than constraining it.
In practice
In a speech about the role of innovation in the arts, one could use this quote to highlight the link between knowledge and artistic expression.
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 even the most speculative minds can fully understand.
We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. ... Rather, how much more admirable the painting must be considered, if having no relief at all, it appears to have as much as sculpture!
My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
If you've been fortunate enough to do a film that appeals to the entire family, that's the audience that's probably going to come back to you in something else.
You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.
The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too.
But now it's just another show, you leave em laughing when you go. And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.
That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly be inside the most inner part of the most inner life of a person. What does it feel like there, and what are the regrets and sensations and longings, and what is the music of it?
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