The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
GALILEO GALILEIAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
-
-
Nature is written in mathematical language.
GALILEO GALILEI -
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
GALILEO GALILEI -
Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
GALILEO GALILEI -
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
GALILEO GALILEI -
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
GALILEO GALILEI -
I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
GALILEO GALILEI -
The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
GALILEO GALILEI -
I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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.
GALILEO GALILEI -
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEI -
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
GALILEO GALILEI -
Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
GALILEO GALILEI -
You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
GALILEO GALILEI -
I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
GALILEO GALILEI -
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
GALILEO GALILEI