Galileo Galilei > Quotes

“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

“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”
― Galileo Galilei

“The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.”
― Galileo Galilei

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Galileo Galilei

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
― Galileo Galilei

“Passion is the genesis of genius.”
― 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.”
― Galileo Galilei

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
― Galileo Galilei

“Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but 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 mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.”
― Galileo Galilei

“I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night”
― Galileo Galilei

“There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.”
― Galileo Galilei

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Galileo Galilei

“Eppur si muove.”
― Galileo Galilei

“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 judgment upon anything new.”
― Galileo Galilei

“Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.”
― Galileo Galilei

“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.”
― Galileo Galilei

“Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.”
― Galileo Galilei

“What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed the power to do nothing whatever for us. Indeed, we should accept misfortune not only in thanks, but in infinite gratitude to Providence, which by such means detaches us from an excessive love for Earthly things and elevates our minds to the celestial and divine.”
― 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

“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

“Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.”
― Galileo Galilei

“They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction.”
― Galileo Galilei

“E pur si muove. I still moves.
(That's what Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.)”
― Galileo Galilei

“Die Neugier steht immer an erster Stelle eines Problems, das gelöst werden will.”
― Galileo Galilei

“In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity. The distance between you and them can one day become so great that your joyous cry over some new gain could be answered by an universal shriek of horror.”
― Galileo Galilei

“I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of the universe and immoveable, and that the earth is not at the center of same, and that it does move. Wishing however, to remove from the minds of your Eminences and all faithful Christians this vehement suspicion reasonably conceived against me, I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error, heresy, and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church. (Quoted in Shea and Artigas 194)”
― Galileo Galilei

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night”
― Galileo Galilei

“Не се чувствам длъжен да вярвам, че Господ, който ни е надарил с чувства и разум, е възнамерявал да забравим за тях.”
― Galileo Galilei

“Man kann einen Menschen nichts lehren. Man kann ihm nur helfen, es in sich selbst zu finden!”
― Galileo Galilei