Galileo Galilei Quotes

Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.

There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.

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.

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

Nonetheless, it moves.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

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.