Galileo Galilei Quotes

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in... view

By: Galileo Galilei

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters... view

By: Galileo Galilei

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved... view

By: Galileo Galilei

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... view

By: Galileo Galilei

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers... view

By: Galileo Galilei

We cannot teach people anything.. view

By: Galileo Galilei

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go... view

By: Galileo Galilei

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not... view

By: Galileo Galilei

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment... view

By: Galileo Galilei

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual... view

By: Galileo Galilei

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics... view

By: Galileo Galilei

I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night... view

By: Galileo Galilei

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations... view

By: Galileo Galilei

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him... view

By: Galileo Galilei

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty... view

By: Galileo Galilei

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox... view

By: Galileo Galilei

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered.. view

By: Galileo Galilei

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so... view

By: Galileo Galilei