Galileo Galilei Quotes

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.

Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.

Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.

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.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.