Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian polymath: astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician.
Two truths cannot contradict one another. Galileo Galilei
Two truths cannot contradict one another.
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'. Galileo Galilei
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.
Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth. Galileo Galilei
Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in. Galileo Galilei
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. Galileo Galilei
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. Galileo Galilei
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
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
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.
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox. Galileo Galilei
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
Nature is written in mathematical language. Galileo Galilei
Nature is written in mathematical language.
Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few. Galileo Galilei
Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom. Galileo Galilei
Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
