black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

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

Interest Philosophy Reason Science
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

Darkness Earth Illuminate Moon Night Place
Nonetheless, it moves.
GALILEO GALILEI

One Liner Science
I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
GALILEO GALILEI

Doubt Entertainment God Help Recognize Truth
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
GALILEO GALILEI

God Heaven Path
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
GALILEO GALILEI

Deny Maintain Principle Science Truth
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
GALILEO GALILEI

Science Stars Togetherness Universe
I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
GALILEO GALILEI

Believe Holy Intention Men Necessary Salve Science Spirit Truth
I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
GALILEO GALILEI

Case Heaven Look Surprise
We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
GALILEO GALILEI

Descent Earth Motion Science
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
GALILEO GALILEI

Authority Humble Individual Reason Science Worth
The 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 GALILEI

Acting Human Mind Nature Remember
Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
GALILEO GALILEI

Act Nature
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
GALILEO GALILEI

Believe Harm Prove Science Soul
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
GALILEO GALILEI

Failure One Liner Reason Science Sense Step
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

Atheist Believe God Intellectual Obligation Reason Sense

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Galileo Galilei Quotes