In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
GALILEO GALILEIIn questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
-
-
Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
GALILEO GALILEI -
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
GALILEO GALILEI -
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 -
Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
GALILEO GALILEI -
Nature is written in mathematical language.
GALILEO GALILEI -
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
GALILEO GALILEI -
The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
GALILEO GALILEI -
The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
GALILEO GALILEI -
The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
GALILEO GALILEI -
In 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 GALILEI -
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
GALILEO GALILEI -
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
GALILEO GALILEI -
Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
GALILEO GALILEI -
We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
GALILEO GALILEI -
Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
GALILEO GALILEI







