Galileo Galilei
Quotes by Galileo Galilei
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
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
— 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.
— Galileo Galilei
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
— 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
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
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
— Galileo Galilei
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
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
— Galileo Galilei
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.
— Galileo Galilei