Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Galileo Galilei Quotes & Sayings
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To go to the wine house and not to get drunk is as difficult as to dive into a pool and not get wet!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
— Galileo Galilei
In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
— Galileo Galilei
With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.
— Galileo Galilei
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
— Galileo Galilei
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
— Galileo Galilei
You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
— Galileo Galilei
Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside.
— Galileo Galilei
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
— Galileo Galilei
Nature ... does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
— Galileo Galilei
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
— Galileo Galilei
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.
— Galileo Galilei
To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.
— Galileo Galilei
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
— Galileo Galilei
And yet it moves.
— Galileo Galilei
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
— Galileo Galilei
Nature's great book is written in mathematics.
— Galileo Galilei
Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
— Galileo Galilei
Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe
— Galileo Galilei
I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
— Galileo Galilei
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
— Galileo Galilei
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
— Galileo Galilei
Nature is written in mathematical language.
— Galileo Galilei
You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
— Galileo Galilei
What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.
— Bertrand Russell
They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.
— Galileo Galilei
Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
— Galileo Galilei
Holy Scripture could never lie or err ... its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
— Galileo Galilei
You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
— Galileo Galilei
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
— Galileo Galilei
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
— Galileo Galilei
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
— Galileo Galilei
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
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
— 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.
— Galileo Galilei
It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
— Galileo Galilei
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
— Galileo Galilei
Man is a 'jar of mistakes', dear Giulia; as we have made a mistake, we are human; this proves it!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
— Galileo Galilei
Oh my son, so poor in doing the right things, so rich in doing the wrong things! What great poverty it is to be so rich!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.
— Galileo Galilei
Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
— Galileo Galilei
The greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens.
— Galileo Galilei
See now the power of truth.
— Galileo Galilei
The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
— Galileo Galilei
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
— Galileo Galilei
A men whose every word is nothing but the truth is not a human being but a god! Gods do not die, whereas Aristotle is lying in a grave now.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.
— Galileo Galilei
If absurdities could be eaten like pigs, you could immediately set up an absurdity farm and get much richer than a king!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
— Galileo Galilei
There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
We are surrounded by the dry thorns of the Inquisition on all four sides; throwing around words burning like fire is the shortest way to one's grave!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.
— Galileo Galilei
Passion is the genesis of genius.
— 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.
— Galileo Galilei
Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
— Galileo Galilei
