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Galileo Galilei (Astronomer)

Doubt is the father of invention.

— Galileo Galilei doubt

I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

— galileo galilei god

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldnt learn something from him.

— galileo galilei man

Philosophy is written in this grand book—I mean the universe—which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth.

— galileo galilei philosophy

I have loved the stars to fondly to ever be fearful of the night.

— Galileo Galilei love

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect, had intended for us to forgo their use.

— Galileo Galilei god

The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.

— Galileo Galilei universe

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 change

Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also dissolved, some in shorter and others in longer periods. They are carried around the Sun; an important occurrence in itself.

— Galileo Galilei self

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

— Galileo Galilei science

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

— Galileo Galilei

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

— Galileo Galilei art

Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in the mathematical language ... without whos

— Galileo Galilei philosophy

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 god

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 beauty

Doubt is the father of invention.

— Galileo Galilei doubt

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

— Galileo Galilei truth

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

— Galileo Galilei men

Ive loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

— Galileo Galilei love

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

— Galileo Galilei soul

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 science

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

— Galileo Galilei

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

— Galileo Galilei bible

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

— Galileo Galilei stars

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 universe

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

— Galileo Galilei people

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

— Galileo Galilei man

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

— Galileo Galilei reason

They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit..

— Galileo Galilei nature

And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judgesover experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please?These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin ofcommonwealths and the subversion of the state.

— Galileo Galilei god

I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidityof the mob. What do you think of the foremost philosophers of this University? In spite of my oft-repeated efforts and invitations, they have refused, wit.

— Galileo Galilei good

It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha

— Galileo Galilei truth

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself

— Galileo Galilei self

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