Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
GALILEO GALILEIWe cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
-
-
It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
GALILEO GALILEI -
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
GALILEO GALILEI -
Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
GALILEO GALILEI -
In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
GALILEO GALILEI -
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
GALILEO GALILEI -
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
GALILEO GALILEI -
See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
GALILEO GALILEI -
Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
GALILEO GALILEI -
In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
GALILEO GALILEI -
Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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 -
Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
GALILEO GALILEI -
I 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 GALILEI -
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
GALILEO GALILEI -
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
GALILEO GALILEI