In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
GALILEO GALILEIIn questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
GALILEO GALILEIWe cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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 GALILEII have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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 GALILEII think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
GALILEO GALILEITo be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
GALILEO GALILEIAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
GALILEO GALILEIWine is sunlight, held together by water.
GALILEO GALILEIIn my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
GALILEO GALILEIThe laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEII give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
GALILEO GALILEII am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
GALILEO GALILEIThe deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
GALILEO GALILEIIt is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
GALILEO GALILEII entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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