Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian polymath: astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician.
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. Galileo Galilei
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox. Galileo Galilei
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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
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.
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.
Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines. Galileo Galilei
Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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.
Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom. Galileo Galilei
Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics. Galileo Galilei
To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.
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
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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.
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so. Galileo Galilei
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.