You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
GALILEO GALILEIYou may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy 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 GALILEINature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
GALILEO GALILEIThe nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
GALILEO GALILEIThe vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEII have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
GALILEO GALILEITwo truths cannot contradict one another.
GALILEO GALILEIAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
GALILEO GALILEII do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
GALILEO GALILEIThe Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
GALILEO GALILEIThe greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
GALILEO GALILEINature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
GALILEO GALILEIIf I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEIIf 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 GALILEIGod is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
GALILEO GALILEISee now the power of truth.
GALILEO GALILEI