Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
GALILEO GALILEITo be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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