Galileo Galilei Quotes
"The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: Nothing, Stars)
"It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: Heresy)
"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."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: Nothing, Sun, Universe)
"We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: Numbers)
"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: People, Help)
"The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: Bible, Heaven)
"Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: Nature, Actions, Man)
"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."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: Science, Authority, Reason)
"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: Science, Authority, Questions, Worth)
"If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: Advice, Beginning, Mathematics)
"I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: Night, Stars)
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: Problems)
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: Man)
"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."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: God, Intellect, Reason, Sense)
"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."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: Beauty, Facts, First, Will)
"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: May, Paradox, Principles)
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
- Galileo Galilei
"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: Measure)