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