Quotes By Galileo Galilei
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
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I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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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.
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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